SEEING THE GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION

Why is this happening to me? Is a common question that many people ask themselves when they are faced with challenging situations in life. Many choose to focus on the displeasure or the pain of the circumstance rather than choose to find the good in the situation. Now I know you think this is an impossible task, what’s good about someone dying, losing their home, or their job. Well when you look on the surface of these types of situations I admit it may be tough not to react from your feelings.


When my grandmother died, the pain was awful; I didn’t think I wanted to live. But my grandmother had terminal cancer and didn’t want to go through the process of chemo. When I walked into her hospital room, she looked at me with those beautiful brown eyes and said “baby, grandma is tired, I’m ready to go.” When I left that room, the pain of grandma dying was still as strong as ever, but I had a peace within me. I knew grandma was on her way to heaven, and given the choice of returning to earth, I think she would have stayed in heaven.

From that conversation with my grandma, it allowed me to focus not on grandma dying, but on what I loved about her. Yes I would miss her, yes I hated she was dying, but I DECIDED to focus on all the wonderful and great moments we shared.

Moments like sitting with her and watching Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Or waiting by the kitchen door for her to tell me I could lick the spoon from the cake she just made. I remembered how she always called me “grandma’s little man.” I had so many great things to think about, rather than the thoughts that would cause me to cry or feel the pain of grandma dying.

King Solomon, said to be the wisest man to ever live coined this beautiful passage;

1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

King Solomon here tells us all that we are going to experience different seasons in our lives, no one is exempt. But we each have the power to think about the good in every situation, and believe me, if you decide to find the good, it is there waiting to be discovered.

Everyone can complain that’s the easy thing to do, be the person that say’s I will find the “GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION.”

THINK BETTER, LIVE BETTER!!!