Count your blessings, not your burdens.....

I do believe that today was one of the most frustratingly negative days I've seen on Facebook in a long time. Lots of negative status updates, bickering, and just plain yuck. Days like this I wonder why I still bother, even though I have cut my Facebook time down considerably!!!

Tonight, I urge my readers to count your blessings, not your burdens. Burdens weigh you down, while blessings will lift you up. When you are close to typing up that negative status, STOP! Ask yourself what is one thing I could say that is POSITIVE instead of this negative garbage. My 'Uncle Wine' as I like to call him, once gave me the best piece of advice. He said, "When someone angers you, rather than lashing out at them at first, take a step back, wait 24 hours, and then if you still feel the need to vent your feelings, do so as respectfully as you can." Saying things in haste, putting things out there on the Internet, lashing out at people immediately does no one any good. And even though you think you may have deleted it, someone has already seen it, making you look like even more of a fool for lowering yourself to that level. Once spoken or posted, it truly can never be taken back or deleted. 

I've urged once before that before you speak an unkind word, ask yourself who is this going to benefit? Am I building this person up or breaking them down? Am I being a kind person or am I being a nudge (great word I use often in memory of Mrs Rhoann Chmiel, who taught it to me!!)? Am I being powerful or foolish? 

If more people thought about the repercussions of their actions, perhaps we will achieve a totally positive world! I choose to surround myself with people who appreciate the blessings in their lives and do not dwell on burdens. I choose to surround myself with people who spread happiness among their fellow man and not doom and gloom, whoa is me sadness.  I choose to count my blessings and not my burdens! That doesn't mean I don't have them. I sure do, but dwelling on them does not do me any good. I do what I can to make the situation better and I do not allow myself to get worked up over things I just can't control. I'm sure each and every one of you, if you started digging deep right now, would realize that you have farrrrrrrrrrrrr more blessings than burdens!

Until tomorrow, my friends.....be the blessing that lifts another human being up rather than being the burden that weighs them, and ultimately you, down!