Get Your Pen Ready

I have a challenge for you. I am a reflective person. I think a lot. I probably think more than I do. Not always the best thing. However, I have a little exercise that I would like you to do with me.

If you have a pen and piece of paper that would be ideal. Now I am going to mention a series of words. I would like you to write down the first that thing comes to your mind when you see these words. Go one by one. See below:

Happiness
Smile
Life
Anger
Sadness
Stress
Freedom
Laughter
Stupid

Look at what you wrote down. Those words that you wrote down on that paper. Do you see some of the same things more than once?  A correlation at all? Or is everything scattered and different? I did this myself to see if any of these things were linked. Anger, stress and stupid were all the same answer for me. Which I found interesting. And I was kind of bothered by that. It is a reflection of my heart.

 Once at church, we had a guest speaker and I remember something that he said:
"What you think about is what you care about and what you care about you will chase."

Our days are numbered. So before we kick the bucket let's give the world a reason to try to start a riot. Let's turn things upside down and share some joy. Temporary things are temporary things. I sit looking in my closet at clothes that I used to love that now hold no beauty in my eyes. I am a silly and stupid being with silly and stupid wants sometimes. But thank God for His grace and redeeming me. I am a work in progress. Aren't we all?

So, look at the words you wrote down and think about it. Reflect and please, dear friends, comment back and share with others. I would love to hear some feedback.

Live today.

-SM