Sunday, October 25, 2009

Our Grace and Peace

1The first thing that you need to do is take an honest look at where you are and what you're going through. A lot of times when you're in the middle of a hard situation, the emotions of it can impact your ability to think clearly. This is a time where you may need other people who can be objective and help you see things from an outside perspective. Be careful however about who you go to for support in these situations--you want someone who will encourage you and lift you up as opposed to dwell on the negative situation along with you and make you feel worse.

Step 2) Focus on what you can control and don't fear or worry about what you can't. In most situations, fear and worry will drag out a situation longer because they paralyze you from taking any action against problems.

Step 3) Turn to God at the beginning of the situation if possible instead of making Him the "if all else fails" choice. I've learned over the years that if you pray about a hard situation at its onset, things seem to work out for the better a lot faster. He makes it possible to have peace through situations that otherwise it would not make logical sense by someone looking from the outside.

I think in many situations it's not that God doesn't want to help us but that people push Him out of their lives in favor of doing things their own way--which has an tendency of not working out like they expect...I've been there, too.

There is also a lot of solutions to life's problems already in the Bible--you just have to be willing to look. The Internet makes that easier now than ever to look up a situation by topic.

Step 4Pay attention to what you're saying both to yourself and other people. If you focus on talking about problems and difficulties all they time, not only do they not go away but they tend to compound. If you focus on the good--no matter how small in the beginning--it will increase in your life.

Step 5Lastly, remember that time is going to impact the situation. Many of us have had times in our life where we didn't know how things were going to go, and now they are nothing but a distant memory despite how intense the situation felt at the time. Time and experience will give you perspective, and you can learn over time how to navigate good times and difficult times. Best wishes to you!

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