“We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
ANTON CHEKHOV
Peace has nothing to do with our circumstances and everything to do with our attitude about them. You can spend your whole life trying to make your circumstances peaceful ~ an impossible feat ~ when what you need is a change of heart.
There will always be problems. Life hands us new ones everyday. There will always be someone who has something against us, issues that are unresolved, crisis to avert, etc. The key, I have found, is not in solving all problems, but in letting them go and trusting God to solve them. I'm not talking about pretending you don't have any, but in accepting that you can't solve them all at once and asking God to show you how to overcome them ~ one day at a time.
My own life is a testament to the fact that given a set of circumstances, I can make just as big a mess as anyone else. Pride makes me think that I would do things differently in someone else’s shoes, but the reality is that I would probably make the same mistakes…or worse.
I think there comes a time in each person’s life that you must accept who and where you are and make peace with yourself. I have been given this life to do with as I will. I can choose to spend my life fighting the small stuff and struggling to be something I was never made for, or I can accept and celebrate who I am and cultivate the talents I do have by sharing them with others.
The life that we all have is going to be filled with challenges and we can do absolutely nothing about that. We can choose to love unconditionally. We can choose to forgive. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to remove “self” from the center of our lives and give something of value to others.
We all have a sad story. When I start to think that I am singled out for pain and disappointment, I always run into someone who has it much worse than I do. I believe that true peace comes from putting our troubles, all of them, in God’s hands, and leaving them there. It comes from accepting who we are, letting go of yesterday and all its cares, and opening our lives and hearts to the possibilities of tomorrow.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Peace has nothing to do with our circumstances and everything to do with our attitude about them. You can spend your whole life trying to make your circumstances peaceful ~ an impossible feat ~ when what you need is a change of heart.
There will always be problems. Life hands us new ones everyday. There will always be someone who has something against us, issues that are unresolved, crisis to avert, etc. The key, I have found, is not in solving all problems, but in letting them go and trusting God to solve them. I'm not talking about pretending you don't have any, but in accepting that you can't solve them all at once and asking God to show you how to overcome them ~ one day at a time.
My own life is a testament to the fact that given a set of circumstances, I can make just as big a mess as anyone else. Pride makes me think that I would do things differently in someone else’s shoes, but the reality is that I would probably make the same mistakes…or worse.
I think there comes a time in each person’s life that you must accept who and where you are and make peace with yourself. I have been given this life to do with as I will. I can choose to spend my life fighting the small stuff and struggling to be something I was never made for, or I can accept and celebrate who I am and cultivate the talents I do have by sharing them with others.
The life that we all have is going to be filled with challenges and we can do absolutely nothing about that. We can choose to love unconditionally. We can choose to forgive. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to remove “self” from the center of our lives and give something of value to others.
We all have a sad story. When I start to think that I am singled out for pain and disappointment, I always run into someone who has it much worse than I do. I believe that true peace comes from putting our troubles, all of them, in God’s hands, and leaving them there. It comes from accepting who we are, letting go of yesterday and all its cares, and opening our lives and hearts to the possibilities of tomorrow.
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