Look with Favor on Reality
Today I am grateful for sweat and endorphins. I am also grateful for phones and texting which make it easy for me to connect with people I care about.
I gained another great gratitude phrase earlier this week. I was at a training with some students and our trainer shared a story and these words: "Look with favor on reality." The story is his, so I won't go into too much of it, but he heard those words from two WWII veterans. That is telling. They are powerful words indeed.
Look with favor on reality. Denying reality doesn't work. It's still there, with all of the positives and challenges that any of us living life have. Some days are diamonds, some days are stones, but they are all gifts.
Look with favor on reality. When doing so, a person tends to automatically start honing in on what is going well, rather than the "yeah, buts" and "if onlys." The former energizes us, the latter zaps our strength and our spirit.
Look with favor on reality. My reality this morning includes an itchy mosquito bite. Our weather took a turn from warm to cool last evening and it is quite pleasant now. The mosquitos knew it was coming. I'll take a mosquito bite if I can have the coolness too. Not to mention, I can easily reach down with my fingers to itch the bite on my leg. Not everyone can do that. I can put some rubbing alcohol on it to help. Not everyone has access to such basic supplies.
That's a minor example, I know. But that's really what's it is all about. Reality is full of little things that can either lift us up or drag us down. Which will I choose to look for?
Today I will look with favor on reality. I am deeply blessed.
I gained another great gratitude phrase earlier this week. I was at a training with some students and our trainer shared a story and these words: "Look with favor on reality." The story is his, so I won't go into too much of it, but he heard those words from two WWII veterans. That is telling. They are powerful words indeed.
Look with favor on reality. Denying reality doesn't work. It's still there, with all of the positives and challenges that any of us living life have. Some days are diamonds, some days are stones, but they are all gifts.
Look with favor on reality. When doing so, a person tends to automatically start honing in on what is going well, rather than the "yeah, buts" and "if onlys." The former energizes us, the latter zaps our strength and our spirit.
Look with favor on reality. My reality this morning includes an itchy mosquito bite. Our weather took a turn from warm to cool last evening and it is quite pleasant now. The mosquitos knew it was coming. I'll take a mosquito bite if I can have the coolness too. Not to mention, I can easily reach down with my fingers to itch the bite on my leg. Not everyone can do that. I can put some rubbing alcohol on it to help. Not everyone has access to such basic supplies.
That's a minor example, I know. But that's really what's it is all about. Reality is full of little things that can either lift us up or drag us down. Which will I choose to look for?
Today I will look with favor on reality. I am deeply blessed.
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