Perspective...

I had a “bad” day yesterday. You know those days where it seems like everyone is out to get you and every email/call you receive seems laced in disdain?

It was a looooong day and I was all set to text husband a detailed diatribe about how rude people are and how I’d like to judo chop those who don’t say thank you.

I decided instead of sending this whiny text, that I would do one of my favorite after work rituals:

Look up random songs on YouTube to see if I come across any gems or anything that fits my mood that day (I still have yet to find a song called “Mondays are evil & rude people suck”).

I happened to stumble across a song by Barlowgirl called “I Believe in Love”. In the video, the group explains how they came up with the lyrics for the song and what inspired them to begin with – a quote. Intrigued, I searched further into the quote that they mentioned and found it on several websites about the Holocaust.

This quote was found scratched on a concentration camp wall and it hit me like a ton of bricks when I read it:

I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining.

I believe in love even when I don’t feel it.

I believe in God even when He is silent.

Hello Perspective.

I’m constantly reminding myself to focus on that word and that is exactly what this quote forced me to do.

That quote was precisely what I was supposed to stumble across yesterday.

Now here’s the part where I provide you with an awkward/slightly entertaining visual of how I imagine this all happened…so bear with me:

When I pray I ask God to walk by my side and to guide me each day. I’m prone to daydreaming and random ideas, so naturally a mental image of us literally walking side by side comes to mind * Side Note: I am also an inherently clumsy girl and I imagine walking next to God that I would still retain this embarassing quality.

So picture this: Me and God just strolling along, while I vent to him about how awful my Monday was, when all of a sudden I stumble and fall on my face.

God’s response: “Walk much?” (Before helping me back on my feet)

Why try to create such a cartoonish visual you ask? Because I realized that I didn’t just “stumble” into those words on my own yesterday, God directed me to them. I tripped right into the quote that he wanted me to read to bring everything back into perspective and to help me back on my feet.

So did I really have a "bad" day? Nope...I had a frustrating day and everyone has them. Lesson Learned: Get up, brush yourself off and be thankful that your day was full of challenges instead of devastation.

Oh lovely Perspective:

It’s like falling on your face…blaming the ground…and then realizing that you tripped over your own feet.

Love,

Elyse