Faithful Friday: When Life Knocks You Down

Hello again,

I hope you've all had a wonderful week so far. I am looking forward to the weekend!
Today we will be talking about good ole' life. Some weeks I feel like I am on top of the world! Life is good, work is good, relationships with friends and family are good. Here recently I have been feeling GREAT! I often caught myself thinking:

"Wow! I'm sure blessed!"
"How can life get any better?"
"What did I do to deserve this"

and then...BOOM! Something comes along and totally derails those thoughts and feelings.
Here's a little history lesson on me and my way of thinking...I'm the kind of person that finds it very easy (too easy) to get in a mood about something. When something or someone is bothering me, it's hard for me to take the high road. My first instinct is ATTACK!
Just when I start thinking "attack" is the way to go. A small voice kindly reminds me that is not the way I've been called to live. That doesn't mean that I react the right way to everything. I wish that were the case. Haha!

I do want to tell you though, not too long ago something came up and it really bothered me. It seemed like the more I thought about it, the more it became an issue. As I'm sitting here- like I mentioned above. Here came "The voice" and it said "Don't you remember that people are watching you? That you are an example of God's grace. That you need to praise Him in all situations?". I tell you what, no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, it was not going away! So what did I do? I stopped thinking about it and started praying about it...

And you know what happened? This thing that was occupying my time and energy stopped bothering me. I realized that it is my choice on how I react to situations. I can choose to allow things to bother me or not. And that even though I may not understand why people act a certain way...
It should not change the person I am.
Has anything like that ever happened to you?

I hope you enjoyed this Faithful Friday. Please let me know your thoughts.

Until next time...
Xoxo,
Adela

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