“She ruined my life.”
“He ruined my life.”
“You’ve ruined my life.”
Have you heard it before? Or maybe the words came from your own mouth?
Can I whisper a hard truth your way? You are the only one who can ruin your life.
Sure, I’ll admit with you . . . other people definitely have influence on things that happen in our lives. Things that are unfair, that hurt and cause us pain.
But it’s your life.
You’re the only one who can control the way you react to a situation.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
~ Carl Gustav Jung
If you’ve been dealt a bad hand in life, I want to encourage you to move past it and grow from it. I know it’s not easy. Believe you me, I know! But what’s the alternative? Living an anxiety-driven life? Drowning in ugly thoughts, sleepless nights, bitterness . . . hatred maybe?
When something bad happens, you have three choices:
You can let it define you,
let it destroy you,
or let it strengthen you.
When you allow yourself to move past the deception of thinking someone else could be responsible for ruining your life … it’s then you’ll be allowing God to step in and begin healing. I know that to be true.
God’s desire is for you to live free. He sacrificed for your freedom. It’s a gift. Take it!
Think about this truth friends … one becomes a slave to their choices. If you choose to think someone else has ruined your life, you become a slave to that thought. And you’ll never allow yourself to move past it.
Can I encourage you to believe that you, and you alone* are responsible for the ending to your story?
*disclaimer :: you and God :)
amen!
Absolutely!! Amen to that!!
Love this…I hope that through God, I can let things strengthen instead of define and destroy! Thank you for this!!
Thank-you! This is exactly what I needed to hear this morning. A friend said something to me that really hurt, and shook my confidence in my God given gifts. God needed me to hear this today! Thank-you!
Totally needed to read this today…as I experienced a rather unpleasant situation today…having read this earlier this morning and ‘facing’ the situation today…it really helped me get through it and past it. Onward and upward…I’m letting go and letting God. HE is my rock…and I trust in Him and everything He has planned for me. Thank you Tracie. xxoo
Amen! :)
Tracie, thank you for inspiring me to become a better person. I love the quote, ““I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” by Carl Gustav Jung. Life does get crazy now and again…I am the sum of my experiences–both good and bad. I have chosen to be an honorable woman who people trust and love. I am very blessed to be surrounded by good people…family and friends. You are one of them.
hey lovely girl! i so very much appreciate your words here. and i adore that they came in a whisper. apparently Heavenly Father’s helped me prepare a tender ear & responsive heart, cause a whisper was all it needed to be delivered on. should it have to come louder than that? i think not. though there are are times my life is so loud with the world’s distractions that a whisper could never have reached me. so thanks again, for being an answer to prayers. ::hugs:: have missed you, btw.
I so needed this word, thank you so much!
So awesome!!!!! Carl Jung is one of my favorites…:)
Melanie just said in one of her last sermons…. If it’s not good, it’s not the end. I just loved that because we know how the story ends… And it’s GOOD. Love and miss you tracie