Eeyore or Tigger?

On my walk with Mr. Bean yesterday, I listened to the end of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. If you know anything about Pausch or his lecture and/or book you will know he found out that he had terminal cancer and only had months to live. In one chapter he wrote that you can either be an Eeyore or a Tigger. Remember them from Winnie the Pooh? Eeyore always has a dark rain cloud hovering nearby while Tigger obliviously bounces on his tail in a overly happy state of mind; Eeyore=gloom and despair, Tigger=a hurricane of happiness.
This morning when I bounced out of bed I had the song, Today is the Day by Lincoln Brewster running through my head. I told you once before that I get these songs in my mind and don't even realize that I'm singing them. This...

...morning was like that.

Here are the lyrics:
I'm casting my cares aside
I'm leaving my past behind
I'm setting my heart and mind on You, Jesus

I'm reaching my hand to Yours
Believing there's so much more
Knowing that all You have in store for me is good
Is good

Chorus:
Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
Today is the day You have made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
And I won't worry about tomorrow
I'm trusting in what You say
Today is the day

I like the last line of the chorus, "And I won't worry about tomorrow. I'm trusting in what You say!" In my pastoral counseling experience I have occasionally met with Eeyore. I can see that poor soul sitting on my couch, worried. Not sure about what, but worried none the same. The only advice I'm offering in this posting is the last line of the song, along with the thought that we should all have a lot more Tigger in us. Today is the Day! Rejoice and be glad in it!

Comments

[Kary Loredo Welch]

I also saw Randy Pausch and hooked onto the 'Tigger and Eeyore" reference. I was 400 pounds and felt like a Tigger inside and Eeyore suit. Since that day I made the decision to have gastric bypass surgery and have lost 170 pounds! Although the weight has come off I am still feeling like Eeyore... someone in our support group said "we had surgery on our stomachs, not our brains".

I will take your post to heart and see if that can loosen me up and I become the bouncy Tigger that I want to be.

Kary

[jordan 3]

He who would do well to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. What do you think?