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GETTING RID OF THE MID-WINTER GRUMPIES

On January 14, 2017 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

 

I woke up grumpy this morning.  (I will spare you the ancient joke about the woman who said, “Sometimes I wake up Grumpy, and sometimes, I just let him sleep.”  . . .  Oops!)

Why?

Is it really so important for me to understand the why of things?  I doubt it.  But here goes anyway:

  • It is a grey, cold, icy day.
  • I’m not feeling well physically.
  • I’m worried about our financial condition.
  • I haven’t been sleeping well for the past several weeks.
  • We are going to a new computer order entry system at the restaurant where I work, and I am not sure that I can learn it.

But here is the bottom line: None of these “whys” are particularly wise or helpful.  They are not reasons.  They are excuses.  The truth is that I am crabby because I am choosing to be crabby today.

So, what am I going to do about this?

I’ve already done a few things.

  • I’ve made a gratitude list of 50 items.  (Perhaps I should go back and review it.)
  • I’ve read some Scriptures.  (Perhaps I could read, out loud, some praiseful passages.)
  • I already ate breakfast.
  • I can listen to some good, uplifting Christian music.  (Okay, so I just turned on K-Love radio.)
  • I can get some exercise later today.
  • I can do some fun stuff.  (Writing blogs is sometimes fun.)
  • I can get some significant work done.  (Writing blogs is work.  Significant?  Well, I hope that it is!)

There is one more thing I can do.  Oswald Chambers writes somewhere that “moods don’t go by praying; moods go by kicking!”  Yes!

So, that is my attempt to help myself (and you, gentle reader) with my (your) mid-winter grumpies.  Perhaps these things might work during any season of the year.

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