If you can't be positive, you should stay quiet! LOL
I'm definitely guilty of complaining about things and people and situations. Life happens and it's hard not to be negative sometimes. But today I was reading someone's blog that I've been reading on and off for a couple of years. It's funny that the people being talked about change, but the gripes are the same and they can't get over themselves long enough to see that they're the problem, not everyone else. Hearing someone playing the martyr gets old, especially when they can't see the log in their own eye because they're too busy pointing out the speck in someone else's eye.
On that note, I'm really working on trying to not be so cynical towards everything but find it hard when I read the same ol' junk from someone who can't quit complaining over petty stuff. I truly hope they find a place where they can feel they fit in, and grow and flourish in their walk.
I think the big thing to realize is that life's not always rosey and you can't always feel warm and fuzzy all over about every situation that comes your way. You can, however, try to be an optimist in any situation and look at the positives that can come from whatever it is you're facing. A job change could be a new opportunity at great things you can't even imagine. A tense situation can be cause for friends to learn to respect each other and have a deeper relationship. An illness can show growth and strength in ways never imagined previously.
Looking back over the past few years, if "bad" things (in my opinion at the time they were happening) didn't happen, things wouldn't be the same today. I've met many new friends in the past year in our "hometown" of the past 6 years, and I never would know some of these wonderful people if I'd been allowed to get my way 3 years ago.
It's so amazing what God lets us go through to get to the great things He has in store for us. I just wish some people could see that change is a good thing. Embrace it rather than fight it, because things can be much better than you can ever imagine if you let your life be taken where God's in control even in the "bad" times.
I am so thankful for being where I am today. I love my home, my community, my school, my church, my pastor and my friends. None of it would be the same if God would've kept everything unchanged over the past three years.
God is God, and I am not.....He has much better plans for me than I could think up on my own!!!
