June's Thought For the Day - Every Day

Weekly Strength – May 11, 2010

Have you met that type of person who has great challenges in life but does not let that get them down?

This item was found in the Bible of a Missouri Hospice patient. June endured five years of living life to the fullest through cancer illness. I was her Sunday school teacher and hospice/hospital chaplain.

Her funeral was a celebration of life in July 2008.

 

June spoke to herself by keeping this clipping close to her heart…

 

A Thought For the Week – Roger Coltrin

A type of person can be pretty well determined by his or her attitude. An attitude of hopelessness can be and usually is disastrous. An attitude that accepts reality, whatever it is, and faces a situation with a determination not to let it throw you can always be helpful.

Of course this sort of thing is more easily said than done. Yet it can be done because people have done it.

Actually, an attitude is a human resource.

 

•  It can be drawn upon, revamped, replaced, revitalized.
•  It is a human resource that provides mental grooming
•  A properly groomed attitude can change a feeling of failure to an expectation of success.

• An attitude of hopelessness can never induce an attitude of hope.
• No one ever gained happiness with an unhappy attitude.
• No one ever gained friendship with an unfriendly attitude.

When an attitude needs changing, change it.

With faith & acceptance of God’s help

aided by your own determination and intelligence,

IT CAN BE DONE.

    [True! - June lived this. You can too.]

This is the kind of lady June was: when, for months, due to her cancer June could no longer attend Sunday school she extended herself and asked if she could have a list of the people who were absent each week so she could call and encourage them by phone from her own home.

What can you do?

- Chaplain Robin