Shift Your Perspective: Turn Your “Haves” Into “Gets”

I was reflecting yesterday and it was a little bit of a busy day and I had to take my son to his flag football practice and after that I had to drive him home and I had to drop him off at home before I went to my men’s meeting.

At my men’s meeting, we were talking about gratitude and just being thankful, especially going through this month and talking about memento mori. It got me reflecting and thinking about turning my haves into gets. I need to look at every opportunity and every day on this earth as a gift from God.

So I didn’t have to take my son to his flag football practice. I get to take him to his flag football practice. I need to look at that as a gift because I have a son who’s healthy and able to go out and play flag football. I didn’t have to take him home and drop him off before my men’s meeting. I get to take him home and drop him off before my men’s meeting because I’m blessed with a family and a home and a vehicle to transport him from his practice to our home. And I’m blessed that I get to go to a men’s meeting and surround myself with other like-minded men who want to follow Christ and grow closer to Him.

This makes me think of St. Joseph. I would like to think that when he was visited in a dream by the angel and was told to take Mary and Jesus to Egypt to protect them from King Herod, that he didn’t view it as something he had to, rather something he got to do. And when he was visited by the angel again and told him to bring them back to Nazareth, that he didn’t view it as he had to do it, that he got to do it.

Men, husbands, fathers: turn your haves into gets and watch how your perspective drastically changes.