A Sure Way Out

      Do you ever feel blue? Discouraged? Overwhelmed? Wondering how you are ever going to keep going through your current trial or situation in life? Do you ever just have the overwhelming desire to sit and cry? (That's a big one for the female population and, can possibly be for those wonderfully sensitive males as well, but that's another story!) I think at one time or another OR many times over, each of us have had to deal with this! You may be dealing with it right now! It happens to all of us, that's for sure! How have you managed to get through it? Each of us may have different ways of dealing with these issues and different ways may work for different people because our personalities are different, but there is one thing that I have found that can work for every person if they will just keep at it long enough. And it can be explained in one word: Gratitude! Yes, it might be hard to think of anything to be grateful for at those rotten difficult times, but as you dig deep within yourself and think of all the good things you have, even the very tiniest of things, it will help you to see that you DO have good things around you, and within you as well. And as you continue to search for the good in and around you, those things that you are truly grateful for, you will soon be able to move out of the darkness of those difficult times and move forward with gratitude in your heart for all the Lord has given you. In fact, you may even learn to be grateful for the trials themselves that have helped you learn to become a better and stronger person. Give it a try! Make it work! Again, not easy, but anything worth having in life is generally not easy!! Right?