I choose to be dancing. I choose to be singing. I choose to be loving, every moment I'm living. I don't mind the crying. Life can be trying. But when it's all said and done (said and done) I CHOOSE to be dancing.
What a great outlook. It's kind of the way I've always looked at life. I've come to learn that there are things I can control and things that I can't. All I can do is all I can do. I need to trust God to do the rest.
I refuse to spend my days worrying about things I have no control over. The truth is, the diagnosis is what it is, the bills are what they are, the exam is coming. I can't change those things. The only thing I can control is how I react to them and I how I allow them to affect me. It makes no sense to lose sleep over things you can change. JUST CHANGE THEM, and if I can't change them, will worrying fix it?
Will I be any more effective if I stress and freak out?
I choose to be dancing and singing and loving. I recognize that there are going to be difficult and painful moments in life. I WILL walk through the valley of the shadow of Death. I just refuse to pitch my tent there. I am going to keep walking; learning from every experience, growing from every lesson, and serving at every opportunity.
I HAVE DECIDED that I am going to find the silver lining. It's a choice that I make. I can choose to be depressed by the bad or I can get excited about the good. I am BLESSED. I am NEVER living the worst case scenario and that alone is reason to sing, to dance, to be grateful, to hug my wife and kiss my baby, and to sleep well every night.
Deuteronomy 7:9 says:
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
HE is faithful, I'm HIS kid, so I'm gonna be alright. Need a better reason to dance?
When it's all said and done (said and done), what do you CHOOSE to be doing?
I tell the students at my school the same thing: You can't control the other person, you can only control how you react to the situation. It's something that I've had to learn on my own.
ReplyDeleteI do know that God will never leave me or forsake me... this hope helps me face life's trials without loosing the joy that God has given me.