Perspectives

We can't always change our situation but we can always change our perspectives.

There's this kids book called The Pout Pout Fish. In it the pout pout fish swims around with his lips puckered out and is approached by his friends one by one who encourage him to be happy. He continues to tell them he can't help it because he's a pout pout fish, it's just who he is. But at the end a girl fish swims up and gives him a smooch on his pouty lips and he decides he never was a pout pout fish but instead he's a kiss kiss fish!

Man, how one split second can open our eyes! I have a moment I think about often where I was just destitute, or so I thought. I sat down at the kitchen table just broken. But then I started to list things I was thankful for. It started pretty bleak. Not even I'm alive but just I'm not dead. But that tends to snowball pretty quickly and after 5 or 10 minutes, I was on top of the mountain. Nothing at all had changed except my perspective.

We have got to take those people and situations  that we have no control over and change the way we think about them. We can't change them but we can change ourselves!

What will you change your perspective on today and how will that change your life?