Daily writing prompt

Think back on your most memorable road trip.

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Does it get any better than this? Yes! Life gets better when you make it better.

• Life gets better when you spread kindness to everyone you encounter, whether in person, on the phone, by texting, or through social media. Kindness is a boomerang. Unkindness is too. The more you send them out the more they return to you. Unkindness produces unhappiness. If you want a happy kind of life, be kind!
• Life gets better when you think better thoughts. Exchange worry for “worglee.” Replace fear with hope. Instead of thinking about and dreading bad things that might happen, ponder and anticipate good things that may occur.
• Life gets better when you get rid of the things that give you guilt. How do you do that? Align your life with your conscience instead of with your guilt producing desires and behaviors. If something makes you feel guilty stop doing it. Humbly apologize to and ask everyone you’ve wronged to forgive you — including God. Do whatever you can to heal the wrong you’ve done and make it right. Rather than trying to forgive yourself, open up to, accept, receive, and live daily in the fullness of the forgiveness that God offers you through the Cross of Jesus Christ.
• Life gets better when you forgive everyone who has offended you or done you wrong. How do you do that? Bless them by speaking and praying good things for them. If you do that every time they come to your mind, your grudge will gradually go away. Your chains of unforgiveness will come undone. Your life will be better.
• Life gets better when you allow Jesus to put His supernatural joy within you and you let His Spirit freely flow from and ceaselessly pour out of your innermost being like rivers. Jesus said: “I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” He also said: “Whoever believes in (relies on) Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” Jesus is speaking to you both with words He puts in your mind and beyond words. Continually listen to His still small voice. Allow the risen Jesus to personally lead and direct you to His incredible joy!

Are you ready for a better life? Go for it. Daily, little by little, train yourself to live better, “Seek first the kingdom (inner government) of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)