I appreciate that you bring up such an important subject.. I read the below a few years back Inge.. it came at a time when my own attitude was virtually killing me.
ATTITUDE
by Charles Swindoll
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Personally I think attitude is the sum total indication of our world view. It is the light that shines, or not, with-in us. It is what creates connections that goes beyond the superficial. It shows whether we can get beyond our own needs enough to really care more about someone else's. It more than anything else shows the level of our Christian maturity and hopefully will show that we are bridge builders instead of steam rollers.