Personal Narrative: Reframing My Mind For Break

Reframing my Mind for Break Going home for break is one of the most nerve wrecking things for me. I know I 'm going to be around the same people who cause me to slip up. I don 't really have a choice in the matter they 're my co workers, and I need to work when I am home. I will also be able to be around all of my really solid Christian friends who I know have my back. This month I am choosing to; have a joyful attitude, not fixate on the negative situations, and trust that God has everything planned for a reason. Choosing your attitude determines how the whole day goes. If I wake up and dread the fact that I have to go to work, I 'm going to have a slump attitude at work and not have a chance to be a light to my coworkers. In the book In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day Mark talks about how joy is mind over matter. Mark uses a quote from Man 's Searching for Meaning "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one 's attitude in any given set of circumstances." I really think this is true, I also think it goes hand in hand with the fact that how you feel is a result of what you chose to focus on. Over break I 'm going to chose to focus on the …show more content…
In In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day Mark talks about how one of the purist forms of worship is pursuing God, even when you don 't feel like it. It really proves that your worship is not just circumstantial. This Christmas break I 'm going to work on focusing not on the bad situation, but onto what is right with God. I 'm going to focus on the things he 's wanting me to learn from the situations, and how he wants me to grow and learn from them. I want to focus less on the bad and more on the good I can get out of the situation. This month I just want God to show me how to find the good in all my situations and how I can use them to be a light for the advancement of his