January 10: Fill Up Your Life
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington
One of the good things about the blues is their power to make me feel better. No matter how bad it gets
in my little world, I can be pretty sure that B. B. King, John Lee
Hooker, or Stevie Ray Vaughn has seen worse. Sometimes, it just feels
good to vocalize all those bad feelings.
Bad things happen in life. Sometimes
they are small annoyances; sometimes they are the major grief mongers.
What matters is not what happens to us, but how we react to it. He left
you. That is a fact. Now, after you get done with the quart of Breyers’
rocky road that you are drowning your sorrows in, what are you going to
do about it? You can sit around and complain to your friends about how
unfair life is, or you can get up, put the empty bowl in the dishwasher,
and go fill up your life.
Feelings are one of the blessings of
being human. All of them. Sometimes we feel good; sometimes we feel bad.
Take some time. Take some energy and be upset. Be aware of the feeling
of being upset. But then get up, go out, and make positive use of your
life.
God, help me put to positive use all of the feelings in my life.
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