Thursday, January 24, 2013

IT'S A MATTER OF CHOICE

How many of you like winter?  I must admit the only time I like winter is for a few days around Christmas.  I do like seeing snow falling down and creating a beautiful, glistening blanket of white over all the drab brown of winter.  However, I don't like to drive in snow and I really have no desire to go out and play in it anymore.  I much prefer to sit inside where it's nice and warm by my fireplace with a hot cup of tea and read a good book or just gaze out the window and watch as the flakes float to the earth.  There is a huge hill on a vacant lot next to the house across the street from us.  Children (and some adults) rush this hill each time the snow flies.  It is fun watching them as they sled and roll around (or down) this natural slide.  It is the cold weather that I just do not care for at this stage of my life.  I long for nice, warm, sunny 70 degree or higher days. 

I suppose I should be thankful for winter.  The cold outside does tend to force me to stay inside and tend to the chores that I would be tempted to ignore or postpone if I could be outside enjoying the wonders of the outdoors.  I guess it is all a matter of perspective and attitude.  This is true regarding all kinds of situations, isn't it.  If we choose to be negative or disgruntled then that is the way we will feel and act.  If we choose to be positive and seek the good in a situation, then we will feel better and handle whatever life hands us with less stress.

  It is a matter of choice.  I am going to choose to not let winter and cold weather discourage me.   I am going to try to have a more positive attitude and make myself accomplish some of the things I know I will never do once Spring comes and I embrace the wonderful outside world once again.

"Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.  You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you made summer and winter."  Psalm 74: 16-17

"Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,  Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness, To thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
Great is they faithfulness!  Great is thy faithfulness!  Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed thy hand hath provided.  Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
                                                                  -Thomas Chisholm -"Great Is Thy Faithfulness"

Happy Winter :)