Hi, Lifeonaires. I just got a letter from my good friend Stan Bower who runs CBMC (Connecting Businessmen to Christ) and just HAD to share it with everyone. Take a look at this and let me know what you think in the comments below.

~Shaun

Dear Shaun & Jennie,

Choices- we always have a choice: good or bad, better or best, worse or worst. Is the choice always the lesser of two evils? Not always. One of the biggest choices I have to make is regarding my attitude. However, the problem is my feelings. One principle of feelings is: anger is derived from yesterday and the past & fear is directed toward tomorrow and the future. My feelings pave the way for my attitude – today, in the present.

I am no longer an iceman who can make cold, hard decisions. In my conversations with family and men in the marketplace, feelings jump into my heart and can shade my verbiage, facial expressions, and my tone, thus affecting the relationship. Everything becomes subjective due to my anger from the past or my fear of the future. Do I ever really live in the present? Have you ever been in that position or felt that way? What is my attitude today, right now?

I wonder what the Book has to say about attitude?

Philippians 2:1-8, “Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”

Wow! Humility…

I don’t know about you, but as I am living on the “anvil of life” and being hammered, an attitude of humility is a good choice. My anger does me no good and my fear does nothing but create anxiety. So…attitudinally speaking, I must live in the now (today) without the anger and fear.

I want you to be encouraged, my dear friend. Today, right NOW is the moment. Be of good cheer for today we have each other.

Sincerely,

Stan A. Bower