«Rejoice always» (1 Thessalonians 5:16).
ON ONE OCCASION during a conference, I heard the speaker say: «Do not spend time with pessimistic people who spend their lives being always sad, complaining, and fearful, because you run the risk of becoming one of them. Seek positive people, who fly high like the eagles and who infect you every day with their happiness. And you be like one of them, too, so that other people want to be with you.» You know, I have been able to understand, in my own life and by coming in contact with other people, the importance of this truth. A special case particularly comes to my mind. She was a young woman just 37 years old, but she expressed herself as if she were an old woman. All her conversations revolved around the same thing: how old she was, how much everything hurt, and the bad feeling she had that she was going to suffer from multiple diseases. It was very painful for me to hear one day that she was in the hospital, unconscious, and near death. With so much life ahead of her, her words, her attitude, and her lack of joy dug a grave before her. May that not happen to you.
If pessimism has an impact on your personality, please, make a special effort toward optimism, toward that willingness to see the best in others, to find the positive in circumstances, to keep faith and hope. Christian optimism is possible because it is based on faith, not on circumstances, and is based on the fact that «we know that all things work together for good to those who love God» (Romans 8:28). Perhaps now you cannot perceive that things work together for good, but trust that it will be a reality.
It is all a question of focus. Decide to focus on the sweet, not the bitter; on the illuminated, not the dark; on the best, not the worst. And if your mind has a hard time with that discipline that requires learning to think about «whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy» (Philippians 4:8), ask God for help. He is more than willing to free you from a negative way of thinking.
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Take From: Daily Devotions for Women’s 2020
«One Day at a Time»
From: Patricia Muñoz Bertozzi
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Magda Sanz T
