Praise worthy is always a place worth visiting

​There are moments my life doesn't feel so praise worthy. But that is always a feeling; it is never a fact.

Praise worthy is a perspective, one I often need to find and not one that usually comes looking for me.

God doesn't come knocking at my door begging me to notice him, but oh how he completely loves me showing up at his door declaring to the heavens just how much I notice him.

That's what I have to do sometimes to shift the way I feel or to put myself on better footing. I have to go to God's door and simply declare that I notice him.

Declare that I am so grateful for him.

I told a colleague yesterday that life has been sluggish the last couple of weeks since returning from my spring break week with the boys. Sluggish, in that I find myself wishing we were still hiking the mountain trails together. Sluggish, in that I wish I was still watching my boy catch his first trout. Sluggish, in that I know those moments are quickly fading away.

And real talk, sluggish in all the emotions that come with knowing the number of those fading moments I've missed the last several years.

But sluggish is a feeling; God's door is a place.

And when I show up at that door and praise him for the mere gift of my two sons, when I praise him for the beauty of the mountains we explored together that week, when I praise him for friends who open the doors of their home to us and make trips like that possible, when I praise him, the air changes.

Our feelings and emotions and our sluggishness, they are the air. We have a lot more control over this air than we think. This air is not like the weather; it is predictable and changeable.

If you are ever wondering where God is, simply praise him. You will then suddenly be at his door. And chances are, that will feel a lot better than the place you were before you got there.

Life is praise worthy or life is not. Neither is ever a fact but both are always a choice.

Thank you for that choice, God.

That is indeed praise worthy.