“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances” (Viktor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning). Frankl learned this in a Nazi concentration camp. We want to think that our attitude is a mere reaction to what is happening to us. If this is the case, we cease to be free; something else shapes us. We are only free when we can decide to be different from’ the oppressive forces coming at us. We can choose to give grace or not. We can decide to love the unlovable. We can love our enemies. We can hand out blessings to those who hand us curses. Choose the attitude of Christ; choose it so many times that it becomes your habitual way of responding to life.
Jesus, forgive us for the undisciplined ways we let attitudes form in us contrary to Your example. We choose Your attitude; we choose Your mind, Oh Lord. Amen
