The wholeness of your life is not so much defined by where you are, but more by where you’ve been and how you handled it. What I mean by that is have you ever noticed when you speak proudly about where you’ve been in life it is usually from a time when you were broke, sick or dealing with a challenge in life, loss of love a one, family member, or pet.

I was listening to NPR this morning.  They were interviewing Tanya Tucker and were discussing the challenges in her life with drugs, men, fame, etc.  The comment was made “well you have done some living now haven’t you”.  That is when the light came on.  These days I believe a lot of us are having some sort of challenges.  We always have and always will.  So when your recanting how difficult today is and you feel how the weight of today’s burdens are to heavy, just reflect that today is just another rendition of tomorrow and yesterday.  The only difference is your state of emotion.  The first step of handle today is to handle your emotions.  We all have them.  It is fine to have emotion, just don’t be had by your emotions.

My suggestion is first handle how you feel and get control of it.  Job loss or love one loss is not insignificant.  Understand where you are at with it.  If you try to run head long into say a job interview and you do not have a good feeling about your self worth, that will probably come through to the interviewer.  If you are not feeling down about a pet or love one passing and you are trying to close a sale, it may be a difficult.

I am not saying stop living, I suggesting understand living and appreciate the wholeness of life’s offering.  The greatness of the reflection of that love one in your life is the blessing of having that love one in your life for whatever time frame god afforded you.  The other path of that reflection (why me?) is going to take you down the wrong path.  Always has and always will.

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