Go On With Your Bad Self!

Go on with your bad self!

“Smash*%#@, crack*%#@, ughhh”, she sighed, “great that’s all I need. Where are my keys,” she said between two pursed lips. She scurried to the broom closet and hastily pulled out the broom and dust pan, dashed back to where her favorite vase was now in pieces on the floor. Angered by the incident, not necessarily by her own negligence, she swept the broken fragments of sharp glass much too quickly and knew in the days to come she wouldn’t be running around barefoot.

Although she should have, she did not have enough time to run a wet mop over the area. She immediately darted to the next room and swiftly picked up her purse one last time in search of the blasted keys. From the rushed motion she dropped her sweater to the floor and there they were, the keys, sitting on the chair all along.

Livid, she tossed them into her purse, abruptly grabbed her tote, sweater, lunch, and reading material for the train and hoped that she didn’t forget anything. Her blood pressure was up, she could feel it, her heart was racing and her ears felt hot. She was up way too late last night and she could just kick herself for missing her alarm. She didn’t have time to press her blouse or drink a cup of coffee like she had intended. “Whatever”, she said to her reflection in the mirror that showed the dark circles under her eyes. Note to self, “I need a new concealer”.

Fumbling to get her keys out of her purse, she dropped a borrowed magazine and ripped the cover as she madly swept it up from the driveway. “Nothing is going right this morning, I am so not looking forward to today”, she mumbled as she pulled out of the driveway without giving her car time to warm up. The cold car hesitated as she accelerated hard trying to catch up with her hot pace.

Finally she yielded abruptly on to the freeway and was now on the butt of an annoying SUV. She had missed several opportunities to move over one more lane and each time she felt a wave of rage flare up inside her. She was irritated by its slow snail’s pace and it made her angry that this huge truck needlessly possessed power. Frantically looking for the next open break of cars to make the switch in lanes and failing at her next feeble attempt to put a little more distance between her and the SUV in front of her, she was forced to once again remain where she was, stuck. “That’s it”, she protested, “I’m going for it!”

Boom%*#@, crunch^*@#, crack^%#@, screech^%#@, bam%#@! Startled out of her own war zone, she could see ahead of her a few cars length away an out of control car sliding across the lanes of highway filled with morning commuters. This vehicle ferociously cleared all moving in its path. She hit her brakes hard and held tight on to her steering wheel and prayed to God that she’d stop without incident. Moments later she was sitting in the lane to her right with her car now facing the oncoming traffic that had miraculously stopped.

Wow, what would you do next? Imagine that it’s you, sitting in that car. You are stopped now in traffic, with your heart in your mouth, your legs shaking uncontrollably and you realize that there is no injury to you or your car. You take a deep breath and when you’ve regained your composure you:

· Want to yell at the idiot that moved about the freeway causing chaos and are ready to ream him because he was obviously the cause of this stupid mess, or

· Thank God that he spared your life and think about how misplacing your keys and the slow SUV were your blessings from above.

Bad attitudes and ghastly behavior seem to attract more of the same. It’s like the domino effect, you drop the first tile and it systematically knocks everything down in its path.

Sometimes it seems that if the day starts off bad, the whole day proceeds along the same lines. Negative comments commence and a pessimistic attitude almost always builds and follows. You come home at the end of the day and say, “I am so glad that this day is over! What else can happen to me today?”

Positive attitudes and grateful behavior seem to attract well, more of the same. It’s like a magnet, you put good feelings out there and you get good back. When positive attitudes are abundant everything around you seems to be operating on a superior level. If we have a happy disposition we will impart gladness, delight, and joy and it would reverberate more of the same.
Let’s go for broke here, what do you say! Rather, put on your face of holiness and outstanding faith. Take pride in being a cut above and you’ll attract the divine, righteous and blessed. Pure of heart will come, virtuous will stand out, the devout will be called sanctified.

Today, turn your attitude into a pious one. Since friends and family always want to imitate someone, give them something to talk about and aspire to. Its okay if others talk about you and your friends who act like you. They may toss around comments like look at those self-righteous people with that holier-than-thou attitude. Who do those goody-goody two shoe so-and-sos think they are? You’ve been called worse than “something good”, you can handle this!

With the grace of God, what may start out as an attack, envy or resentfulness, can turn into pure desire, hope and eagerness. Be patient, they’ll have to come along at some point, evil doesn’t win out when God’s in charge.

The more someone talks, the more attention the good acts of Jesus gets. Turn your slightly less than perfect attitude in a great attitude ASAP. Don’t let negativity get you down or keep you down. When faced with adversity fight for what’s right, you’ll know what to you, you’ll feel it in your heart. God is sure to be smiling down on you. He’s got your back, and he knows you’ll touch some cohorts and inspire good converters along the way.

Who knew, you’re a leader! Go on with your bad self!