It's crazy to think how much your perspective can change once you are removed from a certain situation. Once you battled through it, or once you have taken a step back and embraced it. Your perspective changes, heck, your life changes. Take for example my dad. He was having a very hard time accepting that he had cancer. It was really hard for him, and his family of course. But he battled it and kicked cancer's butt and now its amazing how much different his perspective on everything is. He was a total bear to be around when he was diagnosed. Of course anyone would be that's kind of a scary thing to deal with! but now the tables have turned and he is the one that people seek for advice, or he is the one who seeks people to give them his advice. It's cool to see how God can use him and his scary experience now to help out a friend who is in a situation he was in just months ago. It's awesome!
Yet another example of this perspective changing experience is this whole distance thing with Ben. This past week I've had some anxiety and just sadness about being so far away and not being able to see him for another month, but then I started praying. I was just chit-chatting with God when all of the sudden this thought came to my mind: worrying about anything is not going to glorify Him, having anxiety is not going to glorify Him. I know I've come to this realization a lot, but God has put me in this situation for a reason and I need to embrace that. I need to use this time for Him, and fight the good fight for Him, and get to the other side of this battle to see why God has put us through this.
That's the thing. There is a reason for everything that God does. So here is my new trick, you should try it too if you're stressin or having a bad day. Take a step back from everything and count every blessing in your life. Trust me, your anxiety will melt away, every little thing on your mind has no comparison to God's glory! It changes your perspective, it changes your life. So this post sounds kind of like an adverstisment now, but trust me this little trick is very useful!!
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