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This past Sunday the sermon kept my attention from beginning to end. I even took notes! The sermon was about complaining. My notes are still in my car so I will have to put this into my own thoughts. But the long and short are as follows.

When we complain we do this mainly to blame someone else. Thought: How much time a day to you spend complaining? When we complain it does not change the situation and the only thing that can come is bring us unhappiness. When you think about it, it does make sense. Our words and attitudes are contagious. If we bring negativity by complaining to friends, co-workers or loved ones They are often sucked right into our pity party. Often times in agreement and sometimes they may try to shed new positive light on the situation. Maybe try to get us to look at it from another point of view, hopefully positive. But more often than not they will justify our negative complaints. I really have tried this week to watch my complaining. I've tried to put a positive spin on anything that came up. Even made it a point to stop a few times during the day and ask myself if I had been complaining today. I have to admit that a few times I really had to think about it. It seems that complaining is such second nature to us that we often do it and don't realize it. I'm really gonna try to focus on looking at the good and not the bad this coming year. I need to learn to not sweat the small stuff. Often times when I complain, it is about something that I can not change anyway. So really what good is complaining about something if I can not change the outcome anyway? I know that this is not going to be an easy task to complete. Will I ever be 100% complaint free? Surely not. But maybe I can get to 99.9%. That may be an unrealistic goal as well but I have to start somewhere. I hope that you were able to take something away from tonight's post. If I can remember to get my notes I'll post them in a future blog.

Blessings till I post again.