An Eye for Life

In general, people look for one of two things: Things to appreciate or things to criticise.  Some people curse the drizzle while others are singing in the rain.  Both have the right to their point of view but both are not right in the point of their viewing.  The point or the direction of one view leads to health while the other leads to dis-ease.

Listen to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matt 6:22-23).

The point I get from Jesus' words is that in any given moment, there are good and bad things upon which we can focus.  The rain is bringing needed moisture to the ground and it is denying an opportunity to ride your motorcycle.  You can choose to focus on either outcome, neither point of view changes the fact that it is raining but they both impact your attitude.  

Looking for the good promotes a positive, healthy attitude, which adds to life.  Looking for the bad promotes a negative, unhealthy attitude, which leads to a dis-ease or a kind of death.  One sheds light and the other spreads darkness.  The choice, however, unlike the circumstance, is yours. 

Martin Luther once noted, "You can't stop the birds from flying over head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair."   In other words, we can't control our environment but we can control how we think about it or our attitude.  We can choose to see the best, which will help us to feel our best and, therefore be our best.  Jus' Sayn.