It's All in the Frame

     The fun is over. Back to the grind. A barren landscape of school stretches interminably before us....

     Wait, that attitude stinks! What about rewiring your head, Miss Pessimissy? How about start again:

Oh joy! School back in session! The opportunity to delve into the mystery of neuron transmission, complicated geometric proofs, the history of world war 1, and how to write cogent, pithy twenty page research papers. Does it get any better than this!?

     There, I feel better already. It is all in how you frame the picture.

     It is too easy to focus on  the burden, and not the reward. Our sermon Sunday talked about daily bearing our cross. I loved how the pastor described it not as bearing our struggles, as I have always heard it explained, but as submitting daily to God's plan and lordship, rather than our own. It is easy to look at that as a burden, and forget the reason for it. In the end, submitting to God results in eternal life in the presence of complete and absolute Good.              That really is a picture worth framing.

Proverbs 23:26 NIV

My son, give me your heart

and let your eyes delight in my ways,