So Whitney, Spencer, Kelly and I share this Tumblr (blog/twitter-like site), and it's full of "Day Seized" posts...posts that simply and thankfully mention how we've "seized" our various days. Whitney's last post was about how she got mad at work about so many different things. She got mad about how people were treating each other, about traffic, about not having cable etc. A lot of little things, essentially, that just allow the devil to take a hold of our hearts (for everyone). She then realized that she was whining like a baby and asked, "Why spend a new day mad?"
I"ve been getting mad so easily. I really feel sorry for my brother, who sometimes even gets my bad temper when he's trying to be kind. I get whiny and mad at school, at the work there is to do, at my friends for their wrong attitudes (blind to my own :[ ), at my classmates, and even my choir class for talking so darn much that we can't get a productive rehearsal in (sigh).
But why spend a day mad? Especially since this day is given to me so that I could love others and be a light in their lives. I've gotten so comfortable with stepping right alongside the whining and complaining, and I haven't truly made the effort to be set apart by NOT complaining. By saying, "You know, it's okay that we have all this stuff going on. God will provide and His plan has already been made." Maybe I need to believe it a little more. But I only just realized what a big difference that could make...it seems so weird and so abnormal to be the one in the conversation saying that everything's alright and that life is such an amazing gift.
Get glad, because you never know if it'll change a life.
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