Choose It

When life becomes so focused on one situation or event it takes everything out of you.  You start seeing your joy focus in on those moments of peace, healing, and strength.  Relationships become so involved in your situation(s) that it's hard to decipher true friends from the ones who just feel bad for you.  And most importantly, you become self absorbed.  Even though you hate what you're going through and all your energy is spent on your "situation," all you can do it talk about you.  It's consuming you, eating away at any selfless part of you.

Unless you choose to not be overcome by self pity, vanity, and discontentment.

When our joy is fixed on something greater than ourselves it is always there, no matter what circumstances are.  If we let our lives depend on the crap we're going through then we are missing out on a lot, and I, for one, do not want to miss out on life.  Relationships are too important to let them slip away because of selfishness.  If we choose to be focused on circumstances (bad or good) rather than people, we are going through life without any true relationships because we cannot see past how they can help us, hurt us, or sooth us.  We are made to love God and we do that by loving others...it's not about what they can do for us!  In fact, if we try to make friends by what we can or can't do for them we are making just as much of a problem as they are.

Our relationship with God affects every part of our lives, especially our relationships with others.  I know I have a lot of soul searching to do right now.  I never want to be so focused on myself and the things around me that I forget who I really am...and to be honest, that is the exact direction I'm headed in if I don't start choosing what my heart is set on.

In the words of John Murphy, Choose it!