Photo by Sherri Woodbridge ©2010
This morning I can choose to smile
Or I can choose to frown
I have the choice to be up,
Or I have the choice to be down.
It’s my choice to laugh
or to let myself cry
I can choose to live for God’s glory,
Or allow my spirit to die.
I can give in,
give up what’s to come or could be
Or I can choose to trust in God
For the things I just can’t see.
This day I can live each moment
In joy or in sorrow and pain
I can live in and focus on the darkness
But from such a view, what would I gain?
I’d see the worst,
Having chosen to dismiss the best
Choosing sure negatives
Only to become, for certain, a true pessimist.
I’d ignore the good
for what should have be forgotten -
having chosen situations that offer nothing but despair
and bid for my attention much too often.
Instead I choose to smile
I choose the joy in spite of the pain
I’ll look for the light in spite of the darkness
Seek the sunshine behind all the rain.
Today I will live each moment
Looking up instead of down
Not caring what others may think of me
Whether insane, a dreamer, or clown.
For me it comes down to this -
A truth on which I will not bend -
No matter what happens this day,
God is in control, on that I’ll depend.
©June 2008
Journeying with you,
