Another Time

I have to admit that this past week has been rather depressing and decidedly weepy. Too many changes in too short a time and a situation that I have no control over whatsoever - plus an unanticipated delay - was very stressful.

But yesterday felt better. First it was the Sabbath, which is always a rest day. Secondly, I played praise music all day - the uplifting, sing along even if you can't hold a tune type of music. 

Norm and I went to church, then to the hospital for the pump change (where I realized I had forgotten his shirt so no change of clothes yesterday - poor guy!) and then home for naps (Norm) and FaceTime chat (me).

And more music.

And then in our evening reading I found this:

But the change can be made. Their happiness, both for this life and for the life to come, depends upon their fixing their minds upon cheerful things. Let them look away from the dark picture, which is imaginary, to the benefits which God has strewn in their pathway, and beyond these to the unseen and eternal. – – MH 247.3

Ellen G. White wrote those words a long time ago but they are pretty pertinent to me today.

I have a habit of running ahead, planning for things that haven't happened, trying to solve problems that may never happen, so busy worrying about the future that the present vanishes without appreciation.

Norm must have paid attention yesterday because he emailed this passage to me so it was waiting for me first thing in the morning :) AND there was music playing when I woke up!

My favorite song from yesterday is posted below. I have fixed my mind on another time - and will keep it there.