No Complaints, Just Blessings
Isaiah 43:2 When you cross deep rivers, I will be with you, and you won't drown. When you walk through fire, you won't be burned or scorched by the flames.
I let the people at work get on my last nerve. Aaaaaahh!! (My silent scream) I'm working on not complaing at all. The nonsense in front of me is making it difficult. I've decided that I need to make a concerted effort to focus on my blessings and praise Him for my blessings. I know that as the praises go up, the blessings will continue to come down. The major blessing I will get from this the benefit to my mental health as I move forward to even more positive things.A safe drive to work
A job with a pay check
The ability to pay my bills
Clothes that I like
Food that tastes good
I let the people at work get on my last nerve. Aaaaaahh!! (My silent scream) I'm working on not complaing at all. The nonsense in front of me is making it difficult. I've decided that I need to make a concerted effort to focus on my blessings and praise Him for my blessings. I know that as the praises go up, the blessings will continue to come down. The major blessing I will get from this the benefit to my mental health as I move forward to even more positive things.
- Good health
The thing about becoming negative is that it only brings on more negativity. Stress, poor food choices, disrupted sleep are some results that don't help a person working on improving overall health and fitness. I know that this job provides a financial benefit to me and I know that I be more positive when everything around me is positive. When it is not, I need to create my own positive world. I need to focus on what is good. Sometimes being able to focus on the good and great is difficult. I'm working on it today. Today, was a little better than yesterday.
Do you know my pain of the annoying work environment and staying positive? Do you have blessings to share?
I am working on this same sense of being. NOt complaining, staying in the now. Im reading a great book and one quote sticks out at me "Human beings can be tremendously unhappy - and they are free to choose. This freedom is hazardous, this freedom is very dangerous because you become responsible" I say be responsible for your complete bliss and positivity.
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I have just come home from the hospital.What a great example of a great opportunity to complain,about your own situation.I complain because my knees hurt so,but the man next to me has no leg, no foot, no toe.They say i must be good for him,they rairly hear him talk.My encouragement must be good for him,just look at that man walk.This is part of one of my latest God inspired poems.We always have opportunities to praise,always.Look if you will at the seed in the ground just like us,all covered with tons and tons of dirt.It teaches us a grand lesson.It does what we are supposed to do no matter what.That being,it seeks the sun. It never ever gives up.If it did,we would have no examples of fruit,shade,food,life it self.What helps me get through a day or moment at a time is,keep seeking the SON OF GOD.Example,ever see a tea kettle up to it's neck in hot water? We all have.What does it do then? I'll tell you.It finds a way to whistle.God teaches us that it is ok to go through something, but don't let anything go through you.We are smarter than a tea kettle,or a seed.Seek enjoyment in God's opportunities for us to rejoyce anyway because we have overcome much more than any things. God Bless all and thank God He always gives us a way out, at no charge.In these days and times,it could always be much worse.Praise the Lord.Although it was not easy being in the hospital again,God still was able to use me to encourage someone else.God wants to use you also,so let Him.When you go back to work remember,if you do what you've always done you will only get what you have always got.Ask God for the mind of Jesus,your life will change for ever.
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Good encouragement. Thank you. You are truly a blessing to others. I hope to see you soon.
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I think its a Blessing to beable to complain.Think about people who are in a coma and they can't complain when they are not receiving good nursing care,when they are in pain or feel uncomfortable or when someone positons them in a wrong position and they can't move,what about if they are thirsty and can't have a drink of water to quinch their thirst,if they are wet and full of feces and they can't ask if they can be cleaned.What if they are cold and they can't complain that they don't have a blanket to warm them up. they can't complain if someone is abusing them.They also can't complain if someone don't say a kind loving word into their ears and also they can't complain if they want someone to pray for them.I thank God he gave me the mental ability to complain and knowing that God is able to forefill my needs.Lets not take our complaining lightly and lets complain in a positive note and do something about what is making us complain.Lets complain about peoples lack of love for Gods work.
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,according to his power that is at work within us to him to be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,for ever and ever
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Joyce,
That is definitely a different way of looking at it. We know that God wants us to our wants and our desires and as it says in James 4:2 "You don't have because you don't ask." If we are working to make our situation better, our complaint can truly be a blessing.
Peace & blessings,
Joy
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For so many years i would just take it on the chin.The last hospital stay i had,i did complain in a Godly manner.The doctor would come in every day and ask the same question she already knew the answer to.On the fifth day i did not answer until she asked a second time.I told her that she knew i did not recieve the services that were being offered.Also i told her that ever day ,she would walk into the room ask her question and leave.The doctor said that i was correct.I then told her that people would follow her with medication.The doctor said also they bring food.My opportunity to complain has arrived.I begain to tell her that anyone can put food in a bowl,and put it outside for a dog but we are not dogs.The doctor then sat down to listen.I told her that like physical food is to the body,spiritual food is to the spirit.Within 15 minuts,i recieved the services.Complain with joy in mind.Jesus first,others second you last. God bless. R L J
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