Greetings and welcome to Give Him 15. My name is Cecey Sheets and I am standing in for my husband Dutch today.

Today's title of the post is Foxes and Flees. Have you ever noticed how incredibly easy it is to focus on what's wrong with life?

It's easy for even ordinary irritations to build into occasions for grumbling and dissatisfaction.

The weather, the traffic, the alarm clock not going off on time, the noisy neighbors, we seem to find

irritants rather than the good in life at times. We complain about our job, snap at our spouse,

get honked at by traffic or worse. Sometimes it seems there are more bad moments than good in life.

If we don't stop and take a good look at our perceptions of these situations, we soon find that we have bitter, negative experiences all day long.

The effects of focusing on the negative

can hurt us more than we may realize.

You may have heard that there is a link

between our emotional health and our physical health.

God created our minds and our bodies to be at peace

with each other. When we are embarrassed, something that happens in our mind, our faces go red.

There's a response in our body. When we're nervous, we get sweaty hands, our butterflies in our stomach.

When we're angry, our blood pressure rises.

What we think and feel affects us, spilling over to our health and our well-being.

Life is comprised of moments and choices. Choices have consequences. They are both a gift

and a responsibility. What we choose to think about and how we act on those thoughts and feelings

have a massive impact on our quality of lives.

Have you ever looked back on a bad choice and thought,

what in the world was I thinking?

I think we've all done that.

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