Greetings!
Have you ever thought about what your expectations are for your life. You know, your job or career, your health, your marriage, your children or even your encounters in the grocery store. I was in a long line the other day at the store and the disgruntled woman in front of me said, "This happens to me all the time." I smiled and said, should I move to another line? She wasn't amused. You hear people exclaim their expectations all the time. "It is flu season you know", "I knew he was going to spill that", I always do stuff like that", I knew I wouldn't get that job", That's just my luck", What did you expect from her?" The list goes on and on. One of the reasons I love little children is they are born with such a sense of positive expectation. They love life and everything is an amazing wonder. Not long ago when asked why she had done something, my little granddaughter said, "Because I'm the princess". When do we stop being the princess or the prince? Only after years of negative expectations. Like water dripping on a rock slowly wearing it away. In the Gospel of John, Jesus asked the crippled man who had been waiting 38 years to be healed at the pool of Bethesda, "Do you want to be made whole?" The man immediately began making excuses as to why he could not be healed. What Jesus was really asking him was, what are your expectations. What he was really expecting was to be beaten to the pool, and never healed. Maybe his expectations were based on his fear of what he would do if he actually was healed? We don't have to succumb to the steady drip. Even though it's a little more difficult for those of us over the age of 5 or 6. Choose to change your thinking. Here is what I do everyday and have for years. I have a list of positive affirmations and favorite scriptures and I read them aloud to myself. I didn't write them all at once. I added to them as things I wanted or needed to change, came to light. Now like Jerry Maguire, I exclaim "This is gonna be a great day", and it always is. I'm fighting the urge to delve deeper into the reasons why all of this works because it would be volumes. So for now I would like to end with the words of a good friend of mine. "It's better to expect the best and be disappointed, then to expect the worst and be gratified." Jorge, Transcended Dude I love you guys, God Bless, Don
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