Climate Change

These last few days it has been rainy and gray in Chicago. Today, however, the sun is beaming through the window, and I'm experiencing a brightness of mood. Funny how the weather can influence your attitude at times.

The same way the sun can brighten up your face is the same way your spirit can be influenced by the environments you place it in.

If you're always hanging around negative, sour, complaining people, pretty soon you'll see yourself becoming a bit more negative, sour, and complaining too. If you tend to huddle with gossiping folk, you're tongue is probably wagging with some stories of your own. As the saying says: birds of a feather flock together.

I know as believers we are to be the salt of the earth, and we can't just hang around each other. And I know that some places we go (job, school, family) we really don't have any control over the environment.

However, we can control our friends and close confidants. We can control how we spend our free time. If we take the initiative to surround ourselves with positive, godly, and inspirational people and places we will increase our chances of bettering our spiritual mood.

So, if you're in a bit of a funk, maybe you need to switch up your environment for a little. Even if all you can do is take an hour to spend some time talking to the King, it helps. Let the Son shine on you and help you smile today!

Verse of the Day: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8