Life is what you make of it. It’s how you choose to look at things that make’s you’re life worth living. See problems as a part of life. Accept that things aren’t always going to be a bed of roses… imagine you always got what you wanted? Would you appreciate anything? Would you understand anything about life at all?
The serenity prayer has so much wisdom in it. So many people say it almost on a daily basis, but it has become more of a tradition, and once things have become tradition, they lose their impact. They lose their meaning. Their purpose. Wisdom to ACCEPT the things I CANNOT change. Just accept them. Move on. If it’s happened, it’s done. If it’s a person, that’s their own journey. You can’t change them. What you need to concentrate on is your own journey. Your life. Become the person you were created to be. Once you accept the things you cannot change, you find peace in your heart. Serenity. It makes so much sense. It’s actually so simple. Getting back down to the basics of life. Over time we have made life so complicated. Adding in things that we thought would help us make sense of things that are out of our control. Complications that have become habits.
When you strip down to the mere meaning of life, you find that love is at the core of it all. Unconditional love. No limits. No boundaries. No if’s or but’s. Just love. Nothing more. Nothing less. Love breaks all boundaries. It overcomes. It frees. It is always positive. If you fill your heart, your life, with love, nothing else really matters. Once you’re filled with love, no matter what circumstances you’re in, you can be happy. Content, no matter what.
What is love? God is love. He is the very description of love. Everything that love stands for, is in Him. Love is represented by all that God is. He shines love. He gives love. Unconditional, unlimited love. How do I fill my heart, my life, with God? Find out who He is. Find out how His Son lived while here on earth. And all you will see is love. All you will learn is love. Love yourself. Love others. Love God. Because He first loved you… Before you even knew any of this, He knew you, and He loved you so much that He gave His only son to show you what life really is about.
Remain focussed on the fact that there is a bigger picture. Life is so short. There’s so much more to life than we all realise. So much more to this journey than you could ever imagine. Why waste any time on negative things? Negative feelings or emotions? Why waste energy on things that don’t really matter? Live life on purpose. Be positive on purpose.
I’m not saying that life is going to be a breeze. I’m not saying that you will never have issues or problems. In fact, problems, mistakes and issues are a big part of life. But, you’ll soon learn that it’s not the problem that counts, it’s the way you handle it. Like for instance, let’s say you were addicted to drugs… obviously you want to avoid temptation, but, should temptation happen to land right in front of you, that temptation could become the problem, or by making the right choice, it becomes a lesson, it becomes growth, productivity. You chose not to fall into the temptation, you chose to overcome the obstacle, jump clear of the hurdle. You choose not to fail. And, as difficult as it might have been at the time to say “no”, when you look back, you realise that is was actually as simple as just saying that word: “NO”. Just say no. Because of that one word, you have no consequences, no negativity, no back sliding. In fact, you have moved forward. Leaped over the mountain with one small word. You have grown. Learnt something new. Victory in a war you thought you’d never win. With just one small word. The truth is that you yourself made that simple thing complicated. Anyone else that had never been an addict, or that had seen the devastation addiction causes would be able to say “no” to that temptation without even thinking twice about it. Easy for them. Absolute torture for you. Until you do it. Until you realise the destruction that comes without it. Then, once you make that final decision and say that one little word, it becomes very clear to you that the thing you thought was a temptation, was actually no temptation at all. Now you have overcome that problem for good. Growth. Productivity. It was not easy to get to this point for you and I. In fact it was probably one of the most difficult decisions of our lives. But how much did we learn? How much did we grow? Every time we grow we change. Our character changes. Our point of view changes. We become more and more who God created us to be. We learn more about who we are deep within our hearts. We strip down to the bare nakedness of the life we should be living. A life filled with adventure. New things. Great stories. Amazing memories. Life is truly what you make it.
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