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So apparently you can choose to have a good attitude…I guess I never really thought about it because it is so much easier to have a bad attitude about something.  Today I worked in the kitchen with Kristina and we were preparing salads for a banquet.  We were told that we needed to make 376 salads…so we started going at it.  Well about half way through, another supervisor in the kitchen made a comment about having a banquet of 32 people.  So we had to undo all of the salads we made.  It would have been so easy to just grumble and complain (Phil. 2:14) but we chose to have a positive attitude.  When something bad happens, 9x out of 10 it could have been worse.  In this case, we could have made all 376 salads and then have to undo all of those, instead it was half.

The first day we arrived here at Sandy Cove we received a devotional book, The Message//Remix: Solo, and we are supposed to be doing it every day.  Basically, you read a passage from the Message and then have to think and pray about it.  Well for some odd reason I felt like I wasn’t getting anything out of it so I was a little discouraged which made me in the long run have a bad attitude about it. Well after we discussed it in our class the other day I tried having a better attitude about it, because even if sometimes I don’t get something out of it, it is still God’s Word.  Anyway the next couple days the girls and I decided to make it a little more interesting, so we decided to do it together.  Of course we got a little silly.   The one time we were supposed to read the passage 5x.  So the one time we went around and we read it one word at a time, the next time we read it very dramatically, then in 3 different versions.  After reading it we took time to discuss it and kind of take it apart.  Last night we even got to apply what we were learning in our one class about how to study the Bible.

Even though I just was saying that you can choose to have a good attitude, I am having a hard time choosing to have a good attitude when there are people who work different than me. Satan knows that is a weakness of mine and he is putting those people right in my path, so I could use some prayer on that these next several months.