Your computer has defaults. So do you.

   Have you ever stopped to wonder what they are? What do you do when life is boring, uneventful, and monotonous? What do you routinely think when you’re tired and stressed? What about when you feel unappreciated, overworked, and taken for granted?

   What thoughts circle your mind like a tired buzzard at the end of a long day? I am tired of this, things will never change. No one even noticed what I did. I never get the credit I deserve.

   Thoughts of anger, discouragement, and self-pity are easy defaults. Occasionally we meet someone who seems to have a natural, in-born default of joy and gratitude. For the rest of us, effort and a definite decision are required. To change our default emotions to reflect the fruit of the Spirit demands persistence.

   The person most affected by our defaults is us. Perhaps the greatest gift we can give ourselves is to be reprogram our minds and thought processes so that when life is rather unfun and less than the life we dreamt, we brighten our own lives with peace, joy, love, and gratitude!