Why is it so easy to be drawn into the negative rather than find what is good? Or focus on lack and what we don’t have instead of being grateful for what we do have and the abundant life we live. Paul offers us a powerful antidote: to intentionally focus our minds on what is good, true, and beautiful. When we see charity and love before us, we can use it to draw us to more. Let’s remember: Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:8)
Let’s pray a prayer for more love and charity in our life.
O Lord, give us more charity, more likeness to you. Make us kindly in thought, gentle in word, generous in deed. Teach us that it is better to give than to receive, better to forget ourselves than to put ourselves forward, better to minister than to be ministered to. And to you, the God of love, be all glory and praise, now and forever. Amen
Smitten With Goodness 