Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

by Mystie Winckler

We will tell a story about our life. Every complaint-based story must be replaced with a gratitude-based story. How does faith reinterpret this same situation? How does love spin this circumstance? Choose that story to tell. It will feel awkward and maybe even fake at first, but rejecting a grumbling attitude and replacing it with a grateful one is worth the discomfort. Over time, a rejoicing heart becomes our norm as we practice gratitude and walk in Christ’s forgiveness, extending it as we have received it. When we’ve become accustomed to rejoicing, our interpretive grid is tuned to truth, tuned to see God at work where once we saw only problems and trouble. We can submit to and even enjoy the story God is telling in our life if we are in prayer, in constant conversation with God throughout the day. Where our thoughts dwell makes all the difference in how we interpret what’s happening. The psalms speak constantly of meditation, and in the New Testament, we are exhorted to meditate on what is good and true and upright and beautiful. Biblical meditation is a filling of the mind, not an emptying. Meditation is how we keep a proper perspective and align our judgement with God’s, so we are more and more likely to see our situation from God’s perspective.