First, a quote from Chuck Swindoll – which summarizes the importance and responsibility of our attitudes:

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.”

 

Second, a discovery I made while looking up the definition of attitude.  It's easy to Google, but it's the end of the definition that intrigued me! It says “attitude is sometimes confused with altitude.”  Do you see it?  How far we go, how high we climb, how successful we are, the health of important relationships – attitude does in fact determine altitude.  Let me frame this idea positively and negatively.  If your attitude often stinks – you are determining your altitude and worse, you've climbed about as far as you are likely to go.  If your attitude lifts you and others – there are no limits for you!

Read Swindoll's thought again before you click out.  J

Pastor Mark