I Am Responsible

No one else can know your sadness,
    and strangers cannot share your joy.

Proverbs 14:10 

 

Look carefully at today's verse.  Read it again.  There's not a single person in this world who can know exactly how we feel.  There's not a single person in this world who can MAKE us feel anything.  WE are the only person on Earth who decides how we feel.  Others can create circumstances, but no one can make us feel anything.

 

I never really thought about this before until I read a book about how our mind handles situations.  The author made the point that, while our minds will absorb pretty much everything it encounters, we are the only ones who can interpret the input.  In short, I am the only person on Earth who can decide how I feel!  I become angry by someone else's actions or words be cause I CHOOSE to feel angry.  I become happy by a hug because I CHOOSE to feel happy.  God gave us a mind and we are expected to use it!

 

Today, decide how you are going to feel...and choose carefully.