MIKE!!!!!!

Isn't it great how such a silly goofy ridiculous commercial can make you laugh. And yet the commercial isn't even the half of it for me. My Mom and Aunt love playing out this commercial and laughing their butts off to each others impersonations of it. So every time I see or hear comments about "hump day" their impersonations play out in my head and I sit here and smile. Laughter is SO contagious!!! 

Think about how laughter is contagious. If youre having a bad day and you see a child laughing and giggling you just can't help but smile. What about kindness though? Same thing really. If someone holds a door for you or says "Good morning" you can't help but want to repeat that gesture. But what about when someone treats you unkind...are we quick to react back in the same manor? Is a bad attitude just as contagious as kindness and laughter? Sadly I think it is. 

After my last blog post and repeatedly trying to drill out how negative and mistreating we are, today I also am following along those lines. Are we feeding into a poor crappy attitude of those around us. Bad attitudes are just as contagious as a childs laughter. If we are talking to a girlfriend, or our husbands, a neighbor or a stranger can our attitudes completely change by the conversation we are sharing with another. Hmmmmm I do find I can easily be swept away in this. And that would be my control side. If someone is confiding in me and sharing how their day is going and its based on negativity I find that I quickly get swept up in the why and wanna fix it and start analyzing how to do so. yeah that might not seem to bad but what is my response to the negative? Do I feed into it? Or am I encouraging a different response? 

To be honest last night I had a weak moment. I broke down. Blame it on PMS, my never ending Sinus Infection, my dirty house and unmotivated attitude to fix that, whiny kids, no dinner on the stove and the hundreds of other things on my mind but I flipped. My husband...God love him. Has a very sarcastic attitude, it's who he is. I dont doubt God made him that way to attract people with his happy go lucky attitude but there are days when thats the last thing I wanna hear. Come rain or shine all of Steves emotions come out in sarcasm. Its his blessing and curse. I had had it and I broke down and when I break down all my emotions come running off my sleeve in a never ending stream and Steve sits there in a complete and utter silence just staring at me. He looked so confused as to where it all was coming from. I hold things in pretty good but when it comes out, it comes hard and it hits both Steve and I like a brick. I ended up taking a drive and just asking God to calm my heart and give me patience and kindness and the words to say as needed. Like I've repeatedly said I'm a control freak and no matter how hard a pray at times to keep my mouth shut and let God work, my big old mouth gets in the way and I speak before God shoves my big old foot in my mouth. I repeatedly at times need to sing the song in my head "He's still working on me, to make me what He wants me to be". Steve gets, again, very easily caught up in the negative and can't see through the fog, I know God is working on him with that but, me, I wanna help Him with that. Haha...as if I can do more then God...what a joke! Anyways yesterday I got caught up in anothers attitude and I responded poorly.  This isn't just about Steve but about how I handle other peoples negative attitudes...am I feeding it or am I encouraging a different response. Or am I simply being a listener and doing neither cause sometimes silence is golden. 

I got into writing this blog to constantly have a way to get my feelings out. Share whats on my mind and maybe encourage a person here or there along the way. I get I probably am not always the best person for that job but over all I just simply like typing it out and sharing it. Ive really been having a few things weighing on my mind lately and over the last year I feel God is encouraging me to reach out to woman in my area. I know He's calling me to step out of my comfort zone and do something I have no experience in and I've been fighting it...but He is not letting me forget what He's asking of me. I, or God is calling me to start a Bible study in my home. A night of encouraging other woman, to look into what God is expecting of us. This is not my comfort zone what so ever. I'm rather shy and stand off ish with this sorta thing and so I've been avoiding it. However I know its what I need and I know its what God wants of me. So with that said please pray for me as I go about this...coming up with a good, easy to understand study guide and how I find a way to encourage woman to come to my home for this.