...make lemonade...
have you heard that saying? i've always loved it...but have to admit...it is not always easy to get to the point of making the lemonade...sometimes...we stay in the moment...and focus so much more on the situation...the bad done against us...the job loss...the money loss...the bills...the broken relationship...that we get stuck...and can't move on...
i've had so many moments like that in life...where i stayed too long in the muck...concentrating on the muck...and not the opportunity for a way out...a new way of looking at it...a change...
whatever the circumstance...i have learned truly in my own life...not just hearing about it...that God truly can make good of any situation...but we need to get to that place that we allow it...we welcome it...we trust in it...
i can look back on situations...where i clearly could not let go...whether it was letting go of a relationship...or letting go of a hurt...or letting go of worry...but when i released it...more because i was so so tired of wallowing in it...i could look back now...and see the wonderful hand of God...just weaving a new tapestry in my life...such a beautiful thing to witness...
so when i'm stuck...as i sometimes am...i force myself to look back on years past...and how the letting go was the right thing to do...but not only that...it was finally releasing...and in releasing...giving God the opportunity to do His thing...God won't push himself on us...our situation...He patiently waits...
as i've gotten older...it is easier for me to let go of situations i can't control...and maybe that is because i've lived those moments where God came in and transformed a situation that i saw no way out of...
look for those open cracks...it may just be a sliver of light that gives you the hope to say..."ok God...i can't do this...help" and He jumps in...every single time...
i think the most wonderful part of all this...is that when you look back...and see His hand at work...the most amazing thing...is that it usually...almost always...no...it always is a result that i couldn't have dreamt up in a million years...and those kind of surprises are pretty amazing...
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