Choices

Sometimes we are faced with choices that we really don't have any control over.  For example if the Dr. tells you that you need surgery and if you don't have it you will die, then most of us will take the Dr.'s advice and have the surgery.


One of the choices we have afterward is how we will tell the story of our surgery.


Will we praise God or will we be angry with God?


I watched a video by a woman who wrote a book, the name of it is "Don't put a period, where God puts a comma."


In it, she tells the story of how she lost her son at a young age, and how she felt she had a black cloud over her head.  She had decided to start each day by thanking God for something, like a loving husband, or a friend she could depend on.


Once she started doing that she immediately began to feel her cloud lift, and she was able to start living her life again, without the grief weighing her down.


There is something to be said for starting off your day on a positive note, it begins to show itself in other things you do throughout the day.


When we fill ourselves with good thoughts, those thoughts can change the way we view our day, and our lives.


Of course we will have problems that arise when we aren't prepared, that's why they are problems but if we remember this could be an opportunity to praise God, then we might learn something in the midst of it.