Are you a half full person or a half empty person. This is really important and I think I have flunked it (won’t be the first time). Both my wife and I are in the same boat. We tend to be “half empty” people. All my life I have “pushed a rope”. My career can documented this. In every circumstance, project, plan, situation, program, etc. I can see what’s going to go wrong, what the problems are going to be. I tend to be a “negative” person. My demeanor could be and has been described as sullen and morose. I’m not a very happy looking person most of the time. The reason, of course, is that I’m almost always right and in opposition to the bureaucracy.
Now, that’s not always true. At church I’m an outgoing friendly happy-acting/looking person. But my wife says that’s not who I am at home.
Interestingly the Bible deals with this issue. See Phil 2:14-15.
14 “Do all things without grumbling or disputing; 15 that you may prove yourselves blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world.”
I have to admit that I’m more than a little convicted by this passage. “All things” includes a lot of stuff some of which I don’t want to give up. How about you? Are you grumbling about anything? What’s happening in our country right now could be the source of some grumbling.