Lighten Up

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No where in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Laughter? There are homes where no one has laughed for years. Businesses, where grim is the password for keeping a job. Hard working employers and employees who wear frowns like a badge of honor.

Sure, there are things in the world that are truly a pain. Nor will a sense of humor turn them into pleasure. Nevertheless when it comes time to pay your taxes it helps to have at the ready a thought such as: did you ever stop to think that the IRS is really just doing the Lord’s work? After all doesn’t the Bible say we came into this world without riches and that we shall take no riches with us into the next.

Or, if when someone said “Go break a leg” and you took them seriously; bring up a joke from your reserves. Something that reads, “It really is a bad day when you end up in the hospital in traction and there sits your insurance man telling you ‘Your accident policy covers falling off the roof. It just doesn’t cover hitting the ground.’”

Would you have more happiness? Then minimize your complaints and maximize your thanksgiving. “Earth’s crammed with heaven,” said Thoreau. Love, light, laughter.

The smile of a child. The ripple of a stream. A sparkling star. A rainbow. Gripes, grumbles and grousings certainly don’t offer much help.

Tonight go outside and learn a lesson from God’s great firmament. Look up at the sky, observe the stars surrounded by the vast darkness of space and then consider how they never notice the dark because they are too busy making light.

Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb and blind, had a sense of humor that combined with a sense of God allowed her to answer one day when someone asked if she could feel colors “Oh yes, I can feel blue.”

Would you have more happiness? Be able to laugh at yourself, in particular if the years are slowing you down and you are tired of being tired. Like commenting how when you get up some mornings you feel like it’s the morning after and you didn’t do anything the night before.

Loosen up. Stand on a New York City street and look up at the tall skyscrapers without caring what people watching you are thinking.

Don’t fret and worry over trying to mold yourself into a thousand different selves. Just be you.

Don’t always be sensible. Have the nerve to take a walk in the rain without an umbrella or take off your shoes and wiggle your toes in the mud. Bellow in the shower like an opera star. Share your love of life with such gusto that when you walk into a room everyone there will be glad you came.

Crank up your neurological-movie house on a regular basis, and watch mental movies of good times in your past.

Remember the kitten, now grown to be a cat, arriving at your back door. And the bicycle you once regularly rode and ought to ride again. Remember that great day you accepted Jesus as Savior. Shine up your today’s by bringing up the best of your yesterdays.

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and yours mind in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)

This really shouldn’t be too hard too understand since it simply suggest that trying to go it alone is a poor excuse for a lack of common sense.

When I was a boy I learned both the shorter and the longer Catechism. No one does it anymore, but I did. I still remember one phrase that still shouts at my soul, “The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.”

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Quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled THE NEW MORALITY

“We don’t break the Ten Commandment. If we ignore them, they break us.”

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/

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It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.

It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.

“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.

It’s called purpose, and…”

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