IF YOU'RE HAPPY

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it stomp your feet. If you're happy and you know it shout, Amen! Finish it with me, if you're happy and you know it then your face will surely show it. You are very fortunate that I typed that and you didn't have to go through the torture of my not-so musical voice. From birth on, we enjoy music. It changes form as we get older but it is powerful and can change your attitude in seconds. I serve in the nursery at church and have more success with calming children by simply singing or putting on a CD for their entertainment. It usually stops them in their tracks, they begin to move their little bodies, and then look to me for instruction. You talk about a Kodak moment. Well, aren't we all little girls stuck in these adult bodies. Shall we get back to basics and remember how innocent and sweet life can be. I know I'm probably the only one, but occasionally my mind tends to migrate toward the negitive things in my life. Our minds are a battlefield and we have to know how to defeat the enemy. I was praying and The Lord showed me that you can't sing, clap, stomp, or shout without breaking your thought pattern. He said that even a clap will interrupt a thought because you have to physically move to do it. If you stomp the same is true. Try singing or shouting and still ponder on the same thing that has tried to clutter your mind. I know it sounds silly but it really works. Now we must be selective about what we choose because you certainly don't want to sing Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me. (Hee Haw classic). I hope that this will plant a seed for the next time you are lost in a sea of bad thoughts. You might want to be careful where you clap, stomp, shout, or sing because they will kick you out of the library but you can do it in your heart. The word says clap your hands all you nations, shout to God with cries of joy. I hope you begin to see rainbows where there used to be rain.