Making lemonade

.....cause when life hands you lemons, you smash away, add sugar and sip away on the sweetened sour goodness.

I'm choosing to smile. Im choosing to continuously focus on all the blessings. I'm choosing to rejoice. Im choosing! It's a choice I am making to dance in the rain. To focus not on the bad or the negative but all the other good and great things around me. It's my choice to control my thoughts and my attitude and how I handle the things that come my way.

Current negatives....
One truck returned from the garage for the other one to go in.
Washer leaks
2 sink drains leak
Humidifier broke
Vacuum hose broke
Dishwasher broke
Rylee is a mess
Steve and I both needed new glasses
My tooth broke
Steve has five fillings needed and one tooth is broke possibly beyond repair

How even those negatives can be seen as positives
We have one good vehicle to drive while the other is being fixed. And beyond that we have two vehicles that are paid for and are usually a blessing to have to get from point A to point B on a daily basis! Beats a bicycle.
We have a washer!! It works! It cleans our clothing and spares me a trip to the laundry mat! Plus an added bonus, our basement floor is clean enough to possibly eat off of.
We have buckets that hold water very nicely and I don't need to actually fix anything. :)
Hmmmmm gotta think on that one.....no nose bleeds sooooo that's good. While our house is dry it hasnt caused nose bleeds, yet!
My vacuum works, it cleans our floors! Yes I have to physically hold the hose in place but it completes the task at hand!
This one im struggling with a bit this morning, a broken dishwasher doesn't call for much celebration. Especially when I'm staring at a counter of dishes. Ah here...I have a dishwasher! Yes it's currently not working BUT I have one and normally I am spared the task of washing everthing by hand! That is a huge blessing!!! And I'm even more thankful for two day shipping and a part that is on its way!!!
Rylee has had a great week so far and for that I can handle a morning that shes a mess, plus I have given her the option of a morning nap and a sense of sanity for myself, even if for a short time.
New glasses... We have eye sight and can see all the wonderful blessings in our life and Gods beauty in everything around us!
And for the last two.....we still have teeth!

See...focus on the positive. In life it always seems to pour when it rains. One thing after the other. And sometimes we wanna just cry. It can get super overwhelming! It can get so crazy you simply fall flat on your face. And even right now as I'm blogging my laptop went out and while working on the iPad it stopped working and I lost half of what I blogged....lets just take a second to scream!!! And now I'll say I'm thankful for my phone so I cAn continue blogging!!!

We are a month into the new year and I'm still extremely thankful for new beginnings, a fresh start! This year my goal is to let go and let God. Back off the crazy control train and watch God work. To start off the year God has finally kicked me enough times for me to know he's not letting up and I've gotten out of my comfy box and started a woman's Bible study with two other ladies. Yes I know I kept it small and that was about me and my comfort zone but it's a start and it's gonna do great things....can you feel it?! I'm so excited to be doing a Bible study with these two woman. To grow and learn together. To strengthen and encourage each other as we grow in our faith!!!!

Since we've moved to Ridgway I've been feeling God calling us to start a teen outreach program. It's a strong tug and I have no clue where to start or what I'm doing but it's a God thing and because of that I know it's going to happen and I'm gonna watch as God opens doors!! He calls even the clueless ones :) we just gotta be willing and I am willing!!!! I'm so excited to see what God is going to do this year! It's going to be great things!

So how about a goal...start turning a negative into a positive. Smile more. Be happy! Last week I had blood drawn and the nurse seemed to be grumpy and at first I got an attitude and thought to myself what's her problem?! But then I decided reach out. So I started talking to her and she talked and her attitude changed. She was doing her job, the job she did for 21 years at that location and she loves it. And it was an amazing thing watching her grumpy attitude turn into a happy attitude. Maybe all it took was one kind gesture from me to turn her day around! And maybe it wasn't me at all but kindness and a good positive attitude can go a long way!!!

Takes those lemons and make someone you know some lemonade to brighten their day....yA never know it might just move mountains!