Positivity / Negativity

Kindness

The sun makes ice melt; kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. —Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. —Dave Barry (b. 1947)

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

Changing Mindsets

The definition of Mindset is: a set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines somebody’s behavior and outlook.

Clearly, our mindset affects our outlook and, most importantly, our behavior.

Regaining Your Joy

“Joy of the Lord” is really just a state of mind and a state of heart.

The Joy of the Lord is fixing your gaze, which determines your attitude and actions, on the eternal values that you’ll be living by forever, and cut yourself loose from the temporary setbacks.

The Joy of the Lord is your strength! (Nehemiah 8:10b)

Hope Eternal

Hope is the mechanism that keeps the human race tenaciously alive and dreaming, planning, building.

Hope is not the opposite of realism. It is the opposite of cynicism and despair. Hope is not a lie, but the truth itself.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. -Martin Luther

It took time to learn that dark times are important. I had always enjoyed the ‘flowers’ of life but it took thorns to show me the beauty of God’s comfort. You know, the Bible says that God comforts us when we’re afflicted and from His consolation we learn to comfort others.

Well, my experience says that the thorns make the roses more precious. We treasure God’s providential care more during trouble than at any other time.