Counting,counting,counting

Ever have one of those days when really all you can do is just TRY to count your blessings?

It really has been one of those months for me and its the 16th, so it's half way ovaaa!

Each morning I'm like, well its a new day...Thank You for this new day. Then it seems to run down hill from there. Running here and there and pick up this one, drop off that one, wash laundry, dry laundry, fold stupid laundry, Thank You for my washer and dryer, put up laundry.

Cook this, cut up that,Thank You that we have food, what do you mean you don't like it,eat a sandwich then. Sign this, return that,check this work, redo that work,you need a check? for what? how much? Nahh, we don't need that...well if everybody ate a bug, would you eat one too?! Hello seller, your price is too high. Hey there buyer, lets qualify you first...you do have a job yes? no? hmm, we call you a renter, not buyer. And now its pick up time from this school and that school and this field and that field and if I get another text from one of my kids saying, uh, where r u? I will throw my phone out the window! What's for dinner you ask?I dunno, what are YOU cooking??...........

AAHhh........this day started out with me looking at the wrong things. Somewhere my sight line changed and I was reminded that you can find what you are looking for, so if I look for ugg this and ugg that, guess what I find. I am making an effort to look for the good and great in everyday, b/c I'm sure God didn't wake up this morning and say, ugg...Marcey's on the hotline again.

So, I am choosing to be a hummingbird looking for the beautiful flower instead of the vulture looking for the dead and dying..........the same birds fly over the same desert and find different things. The glass is half full and so on...........this really isn't a post , its a pep talk for myself.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.......and while I'm on the subject of thinking I can, a lady at my office started telling me I needed to read "The Secret". That it is about the "Law of Attraction"--now mind you I have the book and only got to page 11 before I had to close it and put it down. It's all about how the "universe" gives to you what you then put out. The ole what comes around goes around thing...which maybe true, HOWEVER, I would read a line about the "universe" doing this or that and my soul would say, "Every good & great thing comes from the Lord above". The Secret says essentially that what I put out there will be returned to me from the "universe".....and the 1 lesson I've learned thus far, is I can do NOTHING, NADA, ZIPPO.

It is only Christ in me that all goodness can flow through.

I'm not sure where all this is going, but its a typical day of how my mind runs.

Confession: I ate 2 oatmeal choc. chip cookies last night..........I'm sure they had carbs and sugar in them......but today is a new day! I haven't ventured near the cookies today, so I'm doing ok!

Just thought I'd share that.....

Hugs and Cookies!!

~M