Welcome Heart, Sue Donaldson, Speaker

Last night while watching yet another installment of "The History of Britain" (Mark and I are preparing for our trip to London - this Neflix series is a bit of a snorer...), I heard the term: "professional grumblers"-- anti-royalists in the 1600's who refused to pay taxes without representation (isn't that what the American colonists were so upset about - ironic, isn't it?) As soon as they heard "more taxes, everyone" they started in on the grumbling, professionally of course. It didn't work - there was civil war (they won.)

I don't want to be a professional grumbler. I'm afraid I grumbled so much this week - usually in Mark's hearing - that I could be professional (unpaid.) So much for ending my day in the parenthesis of Psalm 92 - "declaring God's faithfulness by night." Instead, I was declaring my exhaustion and dissatisfaction and what if this and that?? very professionally.

Instead, I'd like to be known as a professional upbeat, cheerful-in-the-midst-of-challenge, isn't God great? sort of person. Like my friend, Annadale, 84 - just saw her yesterday at the grocery. I asked, "How are you, Annadale?" and she gave her usual sunny response: "Just great! Wonderful, even!" I love Annadale. I want to be her when I grow up. Choosing to be cheerful is a great profession.