It Could be Worse

I have a friend that I am always telling life is the way you choice to look at it. You can focus on all the crap and get yourself depressed and have a rain cloud over you head all the time. Or you can look at all the good things in your life and feel happy about all the stuff you have in life. I had to call myself on this tonight once I got home. I have not had a good day today. I have had to spend most of my vacation money on just getting my truck into the shop so they could find out for sure what is wrong with it. After talking to my Dad and some friends and the mechanic it sounds like a blown head gasket. If you know anything about cars that repair starts at $1000.00 and goes up from that point. My truck is not even worth that much. So I started feeling bad for myself and thinking how much my life sucks and then the voices started to talk in my head and I just keep thinking about all the things that are wrong with my life and the things I don’t have in it. As I walked into my apartment I started to think what the hell am, I doing I am making things far harder then they are. I then made the choice to look at all the great things I have in my life. Now I did not want to do this as we all like to feel sorry for our self and hope that others will to, and say poor David his life is hard. While things maybe a bit of a pain now, I have to look at the great things I have. My boss is letting my use the company pick up truck for a few days. My Dad helped me tow my truck to the shop and a friend is thinking about selling his old car to me if it is a blown head gasket. So with all that I have to remember what I tell my friend all the time, life is how you choose to look at it. We all have hard times and need to feel sad at times but we also need to remember that things could be worse.

"Beauty From Pain"

What is going on in the world? I have talked to so many people lately that are having a very hard time in life right now, myself included. Now what I am dealing with is nothing compared to some of the things that others are going threw. It did get me thinking about the song form the band Super Chick (yes I am a huge Super Chick fan) Beauty From Pain. Several years ago when the song came out I was in a very bad and dark place in my life. I would listen to the song over and over and wonder when my beauty would come. I still wonder when it will come but I know that I am on the path to finding it. I do not think my true and full beauty will come till I have gone home to be with my God. Every day that I live and try to surrender to His will is taking me one step closer to my beauty. Even in the hart ache of this life we can still see some of the beauty that will come to use when we make it home. I think some of the beauty we see in this life is people being healed form their past, people loving others even when they know the true person, worshiping and serving God the way He made us to. I also think that we need to try hard at times to look for the beauty when life gets us down. If all we ever look at is the pain we will never see the beauty to inspire us to reach for more beauty. Even when we don't want to let go of the pain because it has been a part of us for so long. If we don't let go of the pain and reach for our beauty we are robbing the world of one more thing of beauty. We all know that this world needs more beauty in it and much less pain. So here are the words to "Beauty From Pain" I hope that they will help you as much as they have helped me.
"Beauty From Pain"
The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I'm alive but I feel like I've died
And all that's left is to accept that it's over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
I feel like I'm slipping away

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I'll wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though I can't understand why this happened
I know that I will when I look back someday
And see how You've brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

Here I am, at the end of me
Tryin to hold to what I can't see
I forgot how to hope
This night's been so long
I cling to Your promise
There will be a dawn

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain
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Also remember God never gives us more then we can handle and when we let Him in, He will bring beauty from our pain.