Grateful

If you could pick one over-riding attitude in which to live each day, what would it be? Joy - Peace - Contentment - Kindness - Goodness ... all tremendous and worthy attitudes (and fruit of The Spirit, I might add). I contemplated this myself and concluded I choose ... gratitude. Almost twenty years ago, my immediate family faced cancer. It was moment-stopping and  sobering; mind and emotions jumped into hyper-drive. Of all the goings-on of life, that moment distinctly drew us to consider most important things. Unwashed dishes, dirty laundry, meetings, appointments, unfinished projects ... nah. "Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.' Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.' But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.." (James 4:13-16, NASB). How foolish that we boast in that which we do not possess nor control! As Believers, we are to trust God, to "walk by faith and not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). Each day a gift from God, resting and trusting Him for it - every heartbeat, every breath, every blink of the eye! God is present and active in the physical realm of our days but ultimately does His greatest work in the spiritual. Here we are, some 230 months later, still celebrating life with Mister Bill. Yes, I am ... grateful.