{"id":8593,"date":"2011-10-14T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:34:54","slug":"inspirational-joy-a-positive-way-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/10\/inspirational-joy-a-positive-way-to-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Joy! A Positive Way to Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read this slowly<\/strong><\/span>
\n &<\/strong><\/span>
\n LET IT REALLY SINK IN……<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

THEN CHOOSE .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ‘If I were any better, I would be twins!’<\/p>\n

He was a natural motivator.<\/p>\n

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.<\/p>\n

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, ‘I don’t get it!’<\/p>\n

‘You can’t be a positive person all of the time.
\nHow do you do it?’<\/p>\n

\"\"He replied, ‘Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or…you can choose to be in a bad mood<\/p>\n

I choose to be in a good mood.’<\/p>\n

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or…I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.<\/p>\n

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or…I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.<\/p>\n

‘Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,’ I protested.<\/p>\n

‘Yes, it is,’ he said. ‘Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.<\/p>\n

\"\"You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.’<\/p>\n

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.<\/p>\n

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.<\/p>\n

\"\"After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back..<\/p>\n

I saw him about six months after the accident.<\/p>\n

When I asked him how he was, he replied, ‘If I were any better, I’d be twins…Wanna see my scars?’<\/p>\n

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.<\/p>\n

‘The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,’ he replied. ‘Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or…I could choose to die. I chose to live.’<\/p>\n

‘Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?’ I asked.<\/p>\n

He continued, ‘…the paramedics were great.<\/p>\n

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a dead man’. I knew I needed to take action.’<\/p>\n

‘What did you do?’ I asked.<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,’ said John. ‘She asked if I was allergic to anything ‘Yes, I replied.’ The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Gravity”<\/p>\n

\"\"Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.’<\/p>\n

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude….I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.<\/p>\n

Attitude, after all, is everything.<\/p>\n

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’ Matthew 6:34.<\/p>\n

\"\"After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.<\/p>\n

You have two choices now:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

01. Delete this<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

02. Forward it to the people you care about.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know the choice I made.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Watchwoman:<\/strong><\/span> Here are some scriptures from the King James Bible that support this positive form of thinking, of living, and Christian believing in the good in life in all situations regardless of how bleak they may appear to be. \u00a0\u25ac \u00a0Donna Calvin\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Matthew 21:22]<\/strong> And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.<\/p>\n

[1 Thessalonians 5:18]<\/strong> In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.<\/p>\n

[Psalms 30:4]<\/strong> Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.<\/p>\n

[Psalms 97:12]<\/strong> Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.<\/p>\n

[Psalms 106:1]<\/strong> Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.<\/p>\n

[Psalms 119:62]<\/strong> At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.<\/p>\n

[Psalms 136:1]<\/strong> O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.<\/p>\n

[1 Corinthians 13:7]<\/strong> Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.<\/p>\n

[Psalms 30:5]<\/strong> For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.<\/p>\n

[1 Corinthians 15:57]<\/strong> But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

[Deuteronomy 30:19]<\/strong>\u00a0I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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