You can...
a) Make Lemonade
b) Make other lemon product
c) Throw them back and say "I wanted chocolate!!!!"
So, on the wonderful journey to McKay's last week I picked up a new journal that has lemons and lemonade on the cover and I just started using it today. Why journal and blog you may ask--because I don't want everyone reading every thought that comes to mind. I am a very open person but only to people I know, well most of the time. Anyway, back to my point. Last night Mr. Man challenged me to write down the thinks I'm thankful for everyday to help me to see the good things and not just the bad. I try to be thankful for what I have, but it's hard when it seems as though there's a continuous wave of bad happening. Not that I really have anything to complain about in life. I have a place to live, food, a job, wonderful family, good friends and the list can go on. It's just when the bad happens, no matter how small, it seems to eclipse any good that happens and why I would pick option c to getting lemons.
I have also started to read "Goals" by Brian Tracy to help myself to set some goals and maybe stick to them. I have also started to read "Love Languages of God" by Gary Chapman the same guy who wrote "5 Love Languages." So far they are both good, and I hope in reading them I can begin to move forward in life instead of just being here. Ya know what I mean?
On a more positive note, last night my darling daughter began to express her extreme love for her daddy. She fell asleep without a problem until she woke up about an hour and a half later. Since I had to go and pick Mr. Man up from work I wasn't going to fight her and she came downstairs to play. She started to get whiny so I tried cuddling with her on the couch, and on the way up she spotted a pillow that we got as a wedding present. It has a picture of me and Mr. Man on it. She lit up with delight at seeing her daddy and started beating the pillow saying "da da da" over and over again. It was so cute even though she wasn't saying "ma ma ma" I can get over that since I too am a daddy's girl. To help Miss Sweet Pea I called up Mr. Man and put him on speakerphone so that she could hear his voice too. She was so excited, but when we went to pick him up she played hard to get like she was mad that he went away. Is it possible for a 9 1/2 month old to know so much? I think it is. Thankfully I don't have to pick Mr. Man up from work tonight so maybe we can all get some much needed sleep.
I guess the question of the day is...What do you feel like doing when you get lemons?
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I try to find something positive in every situation, which isn't always easy but usually a person can think of SOMETHING that could be worse than the situation they're in at the moment.
And I hold on loosely. I hold the keys to NOTHING in this life so I better hang tight to the One who really does. It's not always easy to be out of the control seat, but it can also be very freeing to not have that responsibility when I have no answers.
That's not meant to be a sermon. I'm speaking to the mirror on this.
James 1:2-4
Lemon meringue pie.
There is an ad on tv right now for the Plastic Surgery Arts of West Michigan office. Siiiiiiiiiick.
That tangent aside, I know how it can be hard sometime to remember the good instead of only what we wish to change. Keeping a journal of the good can help remember all of the amazing things that do come our way in the course of a day.
When life hands me lemons I make a lemon soda: half lemonade, half club soda. Matt's staff at Pocket Sandwich started making these and I'm hooked!
love,
Mer
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