Blessings

We have them. Everyday. Blessings are not biast to anybody. They are all around us at any given moment. From that promotion at work to that breath you just took. The questions is, do you see them? It is so very easy to take life for granted and not give anything a second thought. Oh it’s easy to fuss about something we don’t agree on, you see that all the time… just pull up social media. However, we have to stop giving our energy to negative things around us, take it in, but don’t allow negative to be your energy.

Why do we do that? Why do we even want to drive ourselves to be around the next bad news or gossip? Even the most positive people get caught up in negative surroundings. After all we are human right? Yes, we are but that means we are in control of what we decide to be around or allow in us. You’re not a bad person if you like to gossip or keep bad and negative energy, but have you ever asked yourself why you are driven when you see such evil? Why not use that same energy to be happy and choose to surround yourself with happy, even in a bad situation. Count your blessings. When something ‘bad’ happens to you, don’t dwell on the bad… look and see what good may have come out of it, and give the good your attention and use that to bless others. I promise you, someone else has it worse and has been worse, and all you are going to do is look silly for complaining about your ‘bad’ day.

We are living in a scary world, but not like scary as far as everyday drive for you to never get up and face that world. You have to be the good that you want to see or you will never see it. Be positive for just yourself. Your mind and body reacts to how you treat it and how you think causes good or bad for that day. Once you control your own thoughts and ideas, you will be a much happier person for you, and for the other’s that are around you. Why not just breathe, smile and control yourself ? Watch what happens next when you bleed that life from yourself to this world. That’s the change.

Being blessed and feeling blessed are two separate things. I have seen other’s down and out in feelings, because of their thought process being focused on the wrong things. Your mind is your control. Period. You can have all you need to be happy…love, support, money, jobs, family, health and home…etc.. and be miserable. Why? It’s in your head to be a brat. Yes, I said it.. a total brat. On the flip side I have seen other’s with nothing but that bag on their back, no home, no love from others, no friends, no family, no money…and when you see them, they smile and are thankful for a smile back. You know why? Because they are thankful and blessed to be alive…even without something else to look forward to. It’s, again, a mind thing. You have to look at it all in a positive way, even in the middle of all the bad. I am not saying its not ok to be upset or to be mad or even gossip if you need to. I am saying, watch yourself and how you respond to news, good and bad. Are you thankful that you have or not have? Look at it this way, life is short and we all go through things, but stop and look around you… people are hurting and living differently than you are. Better or worse.. it’s up to you how you live and look at things.

Have you ever had something bad happen to you in a physical way and it was bad? Then afterwards you realize how worse it could have been? Like if that person wasn’t there when it happened to you how worse it would have been? Yeah it sucked to begin with, but what if they weren’t there or you were somewhere else instead and that bad thing stopped you from being in that other place? Maybe something bad happened to you to get your attention on that change you said you were going to do for the better, but you never changed.. and that bad thing done it for you? Maybe something bad happened to that person you were taking for granted and when it happened to them it made you realize how much you really actually cared for him/her. It happens.. it happens all the time. It’s up to you on how you look at it. It’s up to you to take the bad as you take the good and learn from it or bless someone that needs to hear your story of how you came out of the bad. It will suprise you on what you have been through can change someone else in a good way, when you have that story to tell. Trust me… I know this personally. I learned a long time ago this practice and even though I may not be perfect with it, it is what I practice all the time. When you are alone and have time to think it all over is when you have the power to control your mind enough to look at it all and realize, wow… that happened… and wow, it could have been so much worse! Like in the most terrible way you could imagine. That’s when you know how blessed you are. Yes, you are still hurting, but damn.. you were blessed through it all. It will stop you in your tracks and make you thankful and feel that blessing that was there the whole time. Now you have that choice to be better, to be different in every area. It is part of the training the mind to appreciate your blessed life.

So take that pain, take the bad as you would the good.. hold on to that lesson and always always see the blessings in your life… for most of us, we don’t have to look far and hard.. it’s right there. Make sure you act on your blessings too. Again, by sharing your story, and also the people you are with most of the time, use your blessings to bless them too. They just may have needed that too. The smallest things are always the biggest ones when you recognize it to be so.

Use your blessings to bless others. If you have been blessed above measure, don’t ever look down on the ones that aren’t there yet. Maybe you are being used to be their blessing. God is using you to bless that other person or persons for His glory and your story. Never ever take your blessings and run. Never! If you are only giving your time for someone or something, don’t brag about it to others. Sharing your story and bragging your story are world’s apart when it comes down to the meaning of the words and action.

Leave your camrea at home when sharing your blessings with the needy. Who are you doing this for? Remember earlier when I said do the mind change for yourself? Same goes here. Bragging and showing off to other’s with something you got up to do with your own good heart to help someone less fortunate… is in vane if your doing it for attention or praise. We have to be careful with this one. With social media giving us our own platform, its easy to do for someone and then tell the world about it with what we think was only a good act. We want to share that good act to allow other’s to follow our good deed so they will do it. Well as sweet and as debatable as that may be, the message just doesn’t have the same affect in that act. If that person in need wants to tell the world what you done for them, that’s their job, that’s their decision, not yours!

So go on ahead and do what’s in your heart when it comes to doing good deeds, just don’t advertise it to the ones that may take it wrong and never brag and act a brat when you do something good. Do it in secret. Do it because it’s the right thing to do. God see’s you. He is the only One that counts. Do it from your heart because you are blessed… never do it because you are blessed but need attention.. again, that changes the whole reason to be someone else’s blessing. You might as well have never done it to begin with. Watch your motives, check your heart and mind. Love yourself for helping and blessing someone in need or not in need. Just be the light you feel you need to be, but keep it to yourself and watch your own life change and your mind turning into the very blessing you have always wanted it to be…the right way.