From Another Perspective
What have you been up to since we graduated high school?
That question has been coming up a lot lately. And at first that question made me cringe because I didn’t take the path that most of my friends did. I didn’t get married or become as great a success as most of them...yet.
For me, life has been a process of learning who I am and what I am meant to be. A series of trials have brought me to where I am.
I didn’t like the trials, the problems, but now on the other side of them, I see how they have made me stronger. I see now how they have made me the person I am.
As Joyce Meyer would say, “I am not where I want to be, but I am not where I used to be.”
I still have issues. We all have issues, but we have to step back and look at the situation from another perspective.
What have we learned over the years? Where have we been? Who have we met? Has our relationship with others improved? Has our relationship with God improved?
If we have improved in some way, we are making progress. We are making headway.
To gain perspective, I like to take the trials and problems in my life and look at them on a grander scale. I ask myself when all is said and done and I meet God, is that thing going to matter? Will it be important?
What is He going to ask me? Where I went to school? Whether I married at 23 or 33? Or is He going to ask me whether I fulfilled my purpose in life? It will be the latter. And I know what I want my answer to be: yes.
I help people. I encourage people. That’s what I do. And when I share with someone something that happened in my life and someone is helped through it, that’s when I know I am doing my job right, that I am fulfilling my purpose.
When you put things into perspective, your problems, your circumstances, your situations, look quite different, less severe. What troubled you a year ago probably doesn’t trouble you now. What worried you a month ago might not worry you now.
Life is a process, but if we try to do it alone, we will go nowhere. It is when we learn to rely on the Holy Spirit to teach us and guide us that we make progress.
Step by step, little by little, inch by inch, we change in one area, then another and another until we are no longer the person we once cringed at when we looked in the mirror. Instead we are becoming the people God created us to be.
~ Annagail Lynes
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