Staying positive

Hey readers,

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