Living in the positive
Sounds, good. But is it easy. Well that depends on what your going through in life. Example: You just lost a job and your looking for a new one. Stay positive! Gets a little difficult after the third week of unemploment.
Example2: You mom was just diagnosed with cancerous brain tumor and has weeks to live. Stay positive! Gets unbearingly difficult in the 4th week of her 5 week projectected life span.
We have all from peers and friends that the “best is yet to come” and that the blessing and fruits of hard labor (sticking it through) will manifest itself sooner than later. I believe that God knows the world we live in is a cesspool of negativity. If your going through any type of life draining situation it’s easier to find ways to amplify your pain than reduce. God places people in our path to tell us “keep fighting”, “the best is yet to come”, “i don’t know, i don’t know, just keep praying” (wink at Pascale).
Having a positive attitude is definitely a choice. I’ve heard speaking positive words and having a positive outlook on a bad situation promotes and eventually changes your situation around. Even if that’s a load a crap, doesn’t it just feel better thinking positive? I think so. I’m definitely a negative feeling hoarder in that when going through a hard situation I tend to dwell and live in a negative space. But when I do manage to surface for a positive breath of fresh air, I feel so much better. I definitely have to make it more of a practice.
It is not easy to stay positive for some, but yet for those who do make it a happy, sometimes people percieve them as fake or as having a “Laissez Faire” attitude. I myself try to stay happy because it is so much easier for me and it feels so much better. People where I work sometimes get bothered and ask “What are you always smiliing about?” My response is ” I’m blessed. Why not? Anyways it feels so good smiling, you should try it sometime.” It’s not to say that I don’t go through things, or have stressful situations in my life, but I’m trying to let go and let God.
Dwelling on the past will only keep you there. If you’re trying to move forward you have to stay focused on your goal or your desired outcome, not where you’ve already been or the problems you already went through.
I’ll admit I do find myself thinking about past mistakes and situations I wish never happend sometimes, however I try to dismiss those thoughts right away. I don’t know if that’s just my way of not dealing with it and trying to “sweep it under the rug”, or simply trying to move past it.
In church on Sunday the service was about staying in prayer and that is something I am really trying to work on. I remember hearing a quote on a radio station, “Prayer changes you and you can change things”. I don’t totally believe that. Yes prayer can change you, but I definitely think that prayer changes things as well. Staying in prayer will definitely get you over any mountain.
Enough typing, let me go pray now.