Man, we can not underestimate the power we have over our own personal lives and the lives of others! There are an abundance of things thrown at us verbally, visually even emotionally everyday. Perhaps we consider these outside influences far too much. Change that! We do consider them far too much. I want you today to consider your self how you think about yourself how you feel about your life and where it’s going. BUT! I want you to consider it from your own point of view. Not what your friends, family or even enemies have said over the years. It is your life you are the one living it. Live it in light of how you want it to be!
I work in a group home now, it saddens me to hear the way the words and opinions of others have deformed these people’s thoughts and feeling about themselves. There is power in the words other say to us. But we must not give them the last word. Sometimes people didn’t even have to say anything, their actions speak. Body language is very vocal and can carry a lot of weight when we are vulnerable, and we can not be strong all the time. Ultimately we have to decide who are we living for. More often than not we tend to hold on to the words spoken to us. Everyone wants to be loved and accepted. But if the people you have in your life are keeping you down then tell them so! Most importantly don’t believe it. We are all beautiful. We are all necessary and needed. God created each and every person here. He created us out of love regardless of how your life seems. You are important to Him and your happiness is important to Him. Greatest of all there is a reason for your being here and it has nothing to do with being depressed, defeated or disregarded.
Remember hurting people hurt people. We are all broken in someway and we may be the ones doing the hurting. We hurt ourselves by thinking down about ourselves. Now here is where we could wind up finger-pointing and that helps no one it just makes excuses and keeps us from solutions. We learn things and we can unlearn things. Remember how we talked about habits? Our thought process and reactions are out of habit. We make habitual responses to regularly occurring situations. Perhaps if we modified our responses then we would break the cycle.
Every thing aside you must think speak and respond to life in away the brings joy and peace. If you are hoping and praying for bigger and better things in life you will never enjoy them as long as there is hurt in your life. I’m not saying success won’t come but I’m saying unless you have compassion for yourself and those in your life you will never truly be happy.
We can all crawl out of the darkness. But it needs to start with good thoughts kind thoughts loving thoughts about our selves. We can not love others if we do not first love ourselves. That can also be said about most things caring, kindness, generosity, compassion on and on. But I digress I think you get it. You are a great person tell your self that and perhaps let some one else know you think they are great too.
God bless! Enjoy!
