How do you think?

How do you view daily activities in your life? I often think of the glass half full or half empty schools of thought. I struggle to look for the good each day as I re-frame daily events. A recent blog post by Cindy Hess Kasper got me thinking about just being thankful. In her post, she recounts a story about a friend who broke her left arm. The friend told her how thankful she was that she wouldn't have to have surgery, how thankful she was that she was right handed and could still work, how thankful she was that she had good bones and was a fast healer, and finally how thankful she was that the break wasn't any worse! OK, get the picture here. She was working very hard to see the good. I say very hard because you know how easy it is to see the bad. If your really think about it, why would you even want to see the bad or involve yourself in glass half empty thinking. It does no good whatsoever and is totally not productive. What happened was in the past and cannot be changed.


ESPN featured a story yesterday about a young boy who was standing next to a train, as young kids do, and a step on the side of the train caught his backpack dragging him under the train. The result, both legs damaged enough that they had to be amputated. Years later, as a high school wrestler ... yes, a wrestler, he said about his situation "I'm just seeing it as a challenge God has given me and how I'm going to react to this challenge ... let it make me the person I am, or let it break me."

You and I have things happen to us every day. How do you choose to look at them?