Thank the earth AND the heavens

Last week i was feeling really down, to be fair it had been a really crummy week, i dont really want to go into all the reasons because i dont want to feel depressed again but trust me the feeling-down-ness was justified. Today starts a new week though, and this week will be better than the last, it would be hard for it to be worse! As i was clearing out stuff (there is just tons of 'stuff' in my life at the moment ... most of it has no purpose and i wonder if clutter is half the problem) yesterday - email stuff - and deleting all the old junk i have that i dont really see why i didnt delete at the time ... what was i holding on to this old rubbish for? (perhaps this is a reflection of life? how i am holding on to old vices which serve no purpose and need to be cleared out? if i had done it straight away when i got them it would take much less effort now!) Anyway whilst i was sifting though the junk i found some brilliant pieces of memory that cheered me up, things people had said to me in the past that were still relevant now - words of encouragement, thanks and love. I guess i had just forgotten they had been said, perhaps i was crying out for someone to say these things to me now but everyone was thinking ... ive told you that before surely she remembers??? Perhaps they werent so relevant at the time but they were given then to serve a future purpose? Who knows, the point is that the things you do today will keep affecting people, not just now but further in the future too, good and bad, we tend to think that its only the bad things that we do that will continue to work in the future but its the good too, and its not just because they will re-read it in an email in a few years time when they are having a massive cull, the praise you give someone today will encourage them to do that action again in future, you are helping to build upon their life. As humans we need to be praised, we need to be encouraged and most of all we need to feel that we belong and have a purpose. I think most of the time we assume that people 'get' that we appreciate them without us needing to say it, maybe its embarrassing to do but they dont, they need those words. Im not only talking about children here - sure children need encouragement and praise to mould them into moral adults but that need doesnt stop when they hit eighteen.

People had been praising God since the world was created and He turned out pretty well!

My point is treat people like the kin of Jesus that they are - thank and praise them too