Good...or Bad....Attitude

Listening to a mother tell her teen-age son.....”You have a BAD attitude!” reminds me a little bit about our.......boating!
After having been to the boat over the week-end and spending the majority of the time...6 or 7 hours....hand sewing zippers and vinyl back into the canvas......made me have a....bad attitude about boating!
I don’t want to move the big boat ...one inch....for ‘fear’ something will break or need to be repaired after a normal...wild adventure.....run!
Yet boats....break....on....their....own!
Sitting or moving doesn’t make a great deal of difference.
Ask Dockie who had water flowing under his bathroom sink after a week of non-use. For no apparent reason at all....things happen on a boat.
Knowing those facts of life still causes me to get into a ’funk’....when it is more work than fun!
Attitude adjustment is a constant MUST in boating.
As often happens....someone comes along and tells a tale that is much worse than your recent experience and you feel a little better....temporarily.
On Sunday some friends dropped by...Sally & Sam and Bonnie and Buddy.
They came over to our KRP Dock and it was a fun surprise to catch up on their news and hear their tales of success and failure.
Pat and Walker also dropped by after having moved their recently sold boat while fighting high winds and a steering cable breaking in the process.
Abnormal becomes....normal.
Attitude is... chosen.

In fact, Charles Swindoll says it like this......
“ATTITUDE........the longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or day or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will have for that day.
We cannot change our past....we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that
.....is our attitude...
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our...Attitudes.”

Enough said....my attitude WILL change.
I have that choice...so help me, God!