Staying Positive when the Poop Hits the Fan...

Today was another long exhausting day at work.  I work out in farmers fields fracturing gas wells for a living.  If everything goes well our days are about 8-10 hours long... When the poop hits the fan and almost everything goes wrong then you have to make a conscious effort to choose to be positive, to think positive, even if your work day rounds out to be a nice 16.5 hours of one problem after another...  That how today went for me...

Today I thought positively and focused on problem solving to get things back on track.  Even though I was bagged and past the "legal tired limit" I remembered what my friend Dr. Dick Dewert often says.  "Everything is a seed, every thought, every word, every action."  Because I want the best for my future and for my families future I have been taking that insight and putting it into action...  If everything is a seed, and every seed produces after its own kind a harvest greater than the seed planted, then what do I want to see increased in my life.  I want the fruit of the Spirit increased in my life.  I want good relationships, healthy habits and an increased faith.  Well... to make that a part of my future I was grateful for my Job, I expressed thanks to my co-workers for helping me fix the problems we encountered throughout the day.  I made time to pray and plead the Blood of Jesus over us for our protection from harm.  I responded out of kindness when people where unkind to me today.  I looked for ways to help others out.  I thought about how soft my bed would feel under me tonight instead of how uncomfortable the chair I was sitting on was and what it was doing to my back.  I did have some blah negitive thoughts, but I took them all captive to the mind of Christ and changed what I was thinking about so I could stay focused on being thankful to God for all the little things that made His goodness stand out to me.  

I am now going to flop onto my bed and sleep till my cell phone wakes me up!

Thank you Father for another day of Grace.  I needed your help to choose life today because everyone else was speaking the opposite.  Your my all in all.  Your son,  Peter.