Spiritual Thoughts

  Friday Tale ~ Choices M ichael 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!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Michael 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. I choose to be in a good mood. 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. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept t...

  W hen something bad happens  you have three choices: You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. ~ Unknown   A lthough the fig tree does not blossom And there is no fruit on the vines, although the yield of the olive fails and the fields produce no food, although the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, YET I will choose to rejoice in the LORD; I will choose to shout in exultation in the God of my salvation. ~ Habakkuk 2:17-18

  Y ou are where you are because of your choices. There is nothing to gain by regretting things. Review your past decisions for lessons and make a new decision to change. Take Action Today. ~ Craig Ballantyne   H e leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way. All the paths of the LORD are loving-kindness and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. ~ Psalm 25:9-10

  S ince you are the one who has to  live with your choices, be sure they are your own. ~ Alan Cohen   L et us choose for ourselves what is right, let us know among ourselves what is good.   ~ Job 34:4

W e all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life. ~ Jim Rohn Y ou, Lord, are all I want! You are my choice, and You keep me safe. ~Psalm 16:5 (CEV)

W e are our choices.   -Jean-Paul Sartre  L et us choose what is right....  -Job 34:4  (ESV)

T here are two primary choices in life:  to accept conditions as they exist, or,   accept the responsibility for changing them.   -Denis Waitley  S ometimes it takes a painful experience     to make us change our ways.  -Proverbs 20:30  (GNB)

It is our choices.... that show what we      truly are, far more than our abilities. -J. K. Rowling A nd if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord,  choose this day whom you will serve, whether   the gods your fathers served....BUT as for me     and my house, we will serve the LORD. -Joshua 24:15