So Very Fortunate..

There is a time in everyone's life when they are down. There can be several ways of being down. We can be "down in the dumps", "down and out", "down on our luck", or just plain down. Many people recover from this quickly. Many of us will take a longer time of snapping back. But, there are those of us who have to take the whole journey. The journey to hell and back. Sometimes that journey turns into permanent residence in hell for some people.

When we decide to stay for awhile in hell, we find that everyone else is against us. Every bad thing in our lives that should have made us stronger has made us so weak, that hell seems like a long lost home. We feel we're content with the life we've made and we can't imagine living any other way. We like to blame all of the people that have led us to hell. We remind them all of the time that it is because of them that we are here in hell. We decide to give up. Hell is the life for us. There is one thing that is notably absent in hell. There are no mirrors. There is a reason for that. Mirrors are a gateway to the real reason why we are in hell. If we look in the mirror, we see the REAL reason we are in hell.

Because WE choose to be.

If it sounds like i'm speaking from personal experience, I am. I chose my own brand of hell for many years. Everyone else who loved me put me there. It was all their faults. I wasn't to blame for any of it. That was the lie that I believed. Granted there are some people in this world who take great joy in the suffering of others, we still choose to let them affect us. We don't see the great strength that God has implanted in each and every one of us. We eventually get to the point that God has to show us that we have that inner strength. We get to the point where God has to say, "..pick yourself up, dust yourself off, put your Big Boy undies back on and get back in the game!!"

We also suffer from blindness. We don't see that our loved ones (friends, lovers, family) aren't out to get us, but truly love us and we continually turn them away. We don't want any help from anyone. We don't want to be bothered. We don't see the love that is shown to us. We don't return that love to others either. There is only one way to be able to return that love that has been given.. We have to begin to love ourselves!!

That begins for us by giving up and getting out of hell. Look in the mirror, and see the REAL problem. Trust in God also makes us stronger. Letting Him take over our lives will eventually bring new and welcome change to our lives. John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

We have to lay down that old way of life. Give it up. We have those we love to think about. This post is to all of my friends. All of those who love me and who have stuck by me through the past several years. It has been a rocky road, and it still is an everyday climb. Things in this life will try us all. There will be suffering and sorrow, but in the end it is all what we make of it. Kanye puts it well.... That that don't kill me can only make me stronger..

I love you all very much!!