Monday, January 3, 2011

Daily Devotion - Monday, January 3

Five Thoughts for a New Year

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;
these three alone lead life to a sovereign place.”

--Tennyson

A New Year has begun and this week I want to share five basic thoughts that help me in my work. Hopefully you can find them helpful as well.

MONDAY: Each day is all about attitude.

Each and every day we are faced with choices. Choices start the moment the alarm clock goes off; for example, am I going to hit the snooze button? Choices continue throughout the day. The foundation for making our choices is also a choice we make. I believe that foundation can be called our attitude, often we hear it referred to as a positive mental attitude or a negative mental attitude. Judith Knowlton puts it this way: “I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitudes.”

These are challenging days, this will be a challenging year. What attitude will you choose for the living of your day(s)? Personally, I plan to face each day rejoicing in the gift of life surrounded by chaos, pain and challenge! This is a choice of self-reverence, I believe.

--Ben Keckler
01.03.11

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