This last week was a hard week. I was sick, I wasn’t sleeping well, my job
has become very confusing, but the biggest thing was that I had a big goal I
was getting close to achieving that did not pan out. I hate to admit it because we’re not supposed
to feel discouraged if we have faith, but I was seriously having a hard time
staying positive and finding the bright side of things. That all changed when I had a few
conversations that put me into a positive mind set again. I think it’s amazing that talking to just a
few people can take a terrible week and turn it around so that the next few
days become the best I’ve had in a long time, even though my head still
hurts. I am so grateful that the Lord blesses
us with friends and family who can be exactly what we need at the moment we
need them.
I have never been a fan of talking on the phone or Skyping,
but I am slowly changing my view of that.
There is still so much interaction that is missed in the conversation,
but if you think about it, if you avoid the conversation completely then all of
it is missed. And the difference that is
made seeing someone’s face as they talk to you is so much better than texting
or looking at pictures. Pictures are
great sometimes but other times you miss someone so much that a picture just
doesn’t cut it. We really have been so
blessed to live in a world where you can talk to a computer and talk to someone
hundreds and thousands of miles away and have the whole conversation be in real
time.
I don’t have much more to say today so I’m going to leave you
with the quote of the week. My dear
friend Jenny quoted this scripture to me after she heard about the tough time
I’ve been having: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
Him that loved us.” (Romans 8:24) I love
this because to me it means that when we have difficulties in our lives we
don’t have to just overcome them, we have the opportunity to endure them. To endure doesn’t mean to begrudgingly
complete a task or righteously live a life, it means to relish in the chance we
have to make hard, but correct, choices and reap the blessings of those
choices. We can walk away from our hard
times and feel like we didn’t just pass through them but that we became more
than we were by experiencing them.
Everything that is hard in our lives is for our good, we just have to
search for and find the good in them.
That is one of life’s biggest challenges.
Yours,
Drew
