It's All in the Attitude

Early morning starts for summer school and long days cooped up in an office have really gotten me down this week.

I'm so exhausted I can't even stand it. I can't remember the last time I slept straight through the night. Forget about getting 8 hours! Haha. 

It feels like brutal payback for the laziest Spring semester on record.  Time is whizzing by and I want to enjoy it all but I can't help but feel the pressure from all the necessary deadlines. 

It's stressin me out and making me frustrated. 

Total wake up call: my baby sister is graduating from high school in 3 days. You know those things that you know in your head to be true but you really can't translate into reality? Then one day it's like BAM, EPIPHANY. 

Not only am I growing up, but the people closest to me are too. 

I don't have time to be all frustrated and impatient with people. I don't have time to complain. I don't have time to have a bad attitude. Couple that with my lack of quiet/Jesus time the last two weeks and I become a hollowed version of myself. I don't have time for that. 

So I find this on Pinterest today and it totally spoke to me. 

If I'm not taking the time to create beauty with my behavior and my actions, then I'm just wasting it all away. The countless moments of interaction I have with a friend or a family member or a coworker all exist so that I can create something beautiful. 

That something beautiful to me is this: 

A lasting impression that I am a joyful and loving human being because something exists within me that I cannot deny. I have the Spirit of Jesus who saved me from depravity welling up inside and empowering me to look beyond circa trance and situation and striving for the beautiful. 

Philippians 4:8 says that we are to think about whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy. And not just think to keep those things in our heads but let them overflow into our words and our actions so that lives are transformed for the glory of God. That's beauty! And with the Spirit inside me, I can create it. Because the Creator of the Universe allows it to be. 

I really can say Happy Hump Day! Because things are looking absolutely beautiful to this girl! 

Love, 

K