Amen thanks Sugar Sugar Says: People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, But when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light shining from within.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Vitulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:11 AM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: ATTITUDE > > Hello Sugar, I agree with mathew 634. If we have a positive aditude > about everything then things will turn out all riite. So thank you for > sending this. > Original message: > >> Wouldn't it be good to always have this thought and concept about >> attitudes? > >> all I can say is,"hmmm, Lord help me" > >> ATTITUDE > >> John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood > >> and > >> always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he > >> was > >> doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" > >> He was a natural motivator. > >> If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the > >> employee how > >> to look on the positive side of the situation. > >> Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and > >> asked > >> him, "I don't get it! > >> You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" > >> He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two > >> choices > >> today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be > >> in a > >> bad mood > >> I choose to be in a good mood." > >> Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can > >> choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. > >> Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept > >> their > >> complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose > >> the > >> positive side of life. > >> "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. > >> "Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away > >> all the > >> junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to > >> situations. > >> You choose how people affect your mood. > >> You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your > >> choice how you live your life." > >> I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry > >> to > >> start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him > >> when I > >> made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. > >> Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious > >> accident, > >> falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. > >> After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released > >> from > >> the hospital with rods placed in his back. > >> I saw him about six months after the accident. > >> When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be > >> twins...Wanna see my scars?" > >> I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through > >> his > >> mind as the accident took place. > >> "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my > >> soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I > >> remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could > >> choose to die. I chose to live." > >> "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked > >> He continued, "..the paramedics were great. > >> They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me > >> into > >> the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and > >> nurses, I > >> got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I > >> needed > >> to take action." > >> "What did you do?" I asked. > >> "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said > >> John. > >> "She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors > >> and > >> nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep > >> breath and > >> yelled, 'Gravity'." > >> Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me > >> as > >> if I am alive, not dead." > >> He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his > >> amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the > >> choice to > >> live fully. > >> Attitude, after all, is everything. > >> Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about > >> itself. > >> Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34. > >> After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. > >> Sugar Says: >> People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the >> sun is out, >> But when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if >> there is a light shining from within. > >> > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
