Even though we need people around us to encourage us, you need to find a place in your life where you can encourage yourself. Doug Gilcrease, team chaplain for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
If you want a miracle in your life, you have to participate. Be the place where a miracle may occur. Shift your thinking; believe in a bigger way. As Walt Whitman wrote, "From this hour, I ordain myself loosed of limits and imaginary lines." What limitations have you placed on yourself? What lines have you drawn that can now be erased? Mary Manin Morrissey
The point is that nobody, not even God, can help you if you don't help yourselves just a little. Open the window and the door so if good fortune shows up, it can get in. Carole
If you need encouragement, it is good to think of finding, i.e. making, a place in your life where you can find ways to encourage yourself. It's a truism to make the space. Clear out the clutter that is mostly old thinking.
What is it that you need in life? Can you find a way open to it? Insofar as possible, surround yourself with people and ideas that are encouraging.
If you need more quiet time, make an effort to find it. A friend of mine found herself driving around in the car as her only quiet space. She thought that was ridiculous, but it worked. Sometimes I find myself awake in the middle of the night, because I haven't had quiet moments in the day. Either way God sees I get it.
Find the abundant moments in your own day and live them.
I think it was Kay Kayser who made popular the phrase:
Accentuate the positive. Don't mess with Mr. In-Between.
Karin
Originally posted 2007-02-27 08:03:18.
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Sherry sent the following, saying it was one of her favorite songs:
You’ve got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium’s
Liable to walk upon the scene
- Words and Music by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
While Kay Kayser performed it (as did Bing Crosby and others), the credit for the sentiment belongs to Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer.
I know Kay Kayser used this phrase a lot in his life and in his teachings. Thanks for the credit info.