I’ve always called myself a realist. I see things exactly the way they are. People tell me to be positive and look on the bright side of things and I always thought that I looked at the bright side and the dark side and took it all in. I think that I got drawn in by the darkness though. I began to overlook the good bright side when the darkness began to overtake a lot of the good. But that’s going to change! I am going to start seeing the good in things even if there is only a little bit of good to be found. I will see the darkness but I won’t be overtaken by it and I won’t let it be my only impression. I’ve been in way to much darkness and known of way to much light to still live on the dark side of things.
Optimistic
Yep that’s what I want to be. I need to quit always looking at the sad side of things and began to see the opportunity of something. I’m sure at one time when people looked at me they didn’t see too much brightness or happiness but when God looked at me he saw beauty and what I could be! I want to be that way and I think God has been showing me lately how I need to start seeing the good in people and in situations. I tend to see the good in people but not in circumstances, especially my own circumstances and situations.
I’ve been pessimistic without realizing it for as long as I can remember but I’m throwing off the old pessimistic ways and taking on a new outlook at things! If I can see it I can have it! If I can dream it, it can happen! I know it might sound ridiculous but I’m actually quite serious. Life is so short and I know pain exists in this world and I have had my share of it in life, I’ve been hurt, broken hearted, abused and mistreated but haven’t we all? I would much rather brighten someone else’s day with a kind word and a happy spirit than be gloomy and wonder where life is going! If I can’t change it then I can always just make the best out of it!
I know what it’s like to sit in my room night after night with the tears flowing wondering where God is and what’s happening, it was in those moments that I broke down more than a few walls inside my heart and let God take the pain from inside me. It’s in those moments that I began to trust in his hand and it’s when I did that that everything changed! Do you see the link? When everything was broken and shattered I begin to trust in God and all the worry and fretting, angry thoughts, useless feelings were all gone and I could have trusted that whole entire time! I could have just said “I don’t know where I’m going but I know whose leading me” and it would have been so completely different! The bible says with the faith of a mustard seed you could move mountains. I always applied that to things like I have faith that God can heal me or that God can do this or that, I never really thought of it as trust. Faith and trust are so closely related you almost can’t separate them. I have faith in Jesus therefore I trust that he knows what he’s doing. I trust in him because I have faith that he can do anything!
Here’s a key that I learned the hard way. When everything is falling apart and you feel like falling apart, trust him but also praise him. Seriously, just stop what you’re doing, if you can, and sit somewhere quiet and begin to praise him and tell him how good he is. It does amazing things!
Also, reach out to others. In the worst moments of your life there is almost always someone who has it worse than you do. Help others! Smile at someone and talk to someone who seems lonely or like their hurting. When you are in pain, its crazy I know but it works, reach out and talk to someone let them know you care and that you are there for them.
The bible backs me up on this too. The bible says in 1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your care on him, for he cares for you.” In James 5:11 it says “Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; (the end of the Lord meaning that in the end of Jobs suffering the Lord gave him more than he ever had before) that the Lord is very pitiful (which means very compassionate) and of tender mercy.”
So… the choice is up to you.
To be happy or not to be happy…
