All the Good Things

            Sometimes it is good to keep busy.  If I feel so overwhelmed with all the stuff to accomplish that by my response to it, others are burdened, I need to change my perspective.

            Having my daughter and knowing children like songs, I looked up on you-tube some old fun children’s songs from “Salty the Singing Songbook” whose music I used to listen to as a child.  There was a song I came across that I remembered and that I really liked the tune to.  The lyrics are really nice as well and are a good source to support the message in this entry.  The song is “How I Want to Be, Lord, Just Like You.”  A couple phrases of the lyrics are “How I Want to be, Lord, just like You… And all the good things that I want to do” and “when You give You peace and You share Your joy, and You show Your love, oh Lord, how I want to be like You.”

            If I change my perspective from thinking all the stuff I have to do is a burden, burdening others with a stressful attitude, to thinking of them as good things I’m doing to help me be like Jesus, I will look forward to each task with a smile.  I will know that by it, I am “singing” to Jesus, how I want to be like Him, and sometimes I really have sung it when I do my work. 

            Other times, it’s not good to be busy, and those times are being with family and on the day of rest.  But those are good things to do, too.