That colors
our lives
If you have ever used food coloring to dye cookie dough or used it to color lava for a kids science project you know that just a few drops go a long way. Something that is completely white or clear can become scarlet red, or blue or green within a matter of minutes. With a couple of drops and a little mixing the entire thing looks different.
Our attitude works in much the same way. It takes just a little bit of a attitude, positive or negative to color everything around us. Within just a few minutes everything looks different.
Have you ever had an experience where you thought an idea or something was great and within a few minutes an attitude you encountered changed how you saw it? What about the opposite effect? Have you ever had an experience where you were not sure an idea was ready or worth taking about and you encountered an attitude that lifted the idea from obscurity?
It’s true that attitude changes the way we see things but, it is also true that we get to choose which attitude we want to see through. Just because we encounter an attitude doesn’t mean we are helpless dough that has no choice but to be mixed up with it. We get to choose if an attitude from the outside will influence and color our inside.
We also get to choose what color of attitude we want to splash on the world around us.
What attitude is predominately coloring your world today? Do you like the color you see or would you like to make a different choice?