What Is Your Response-Ability?

What happens to you may be an accident. How you respond is not.

Perspective is everything. A toddler cries when the stack of  blocks falls over. (the parent knows that this is no big deal.) A child quits when the peewee baseball team loses a game. (The parent knows that this loss will soon be forgotten.) And the teenage guy feels rejected if he isn't invited to the Sadie Hawkins dance. (We can speak from personal experience on this one. Life does go on).

Change your perspective. Look at circumstances from God's point of view. If you have an eternal perspective, then all of your difficulties will seem to shrink. God doesn't see insurmountable obstacles in your life, although they may appear that way to you. He is able to conquer any adverse situation, so look at it through His eyes. Before you know it, the problem will be gone, and the unpleasantness will be forgotten.

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord!
I will be joyful in the God of my salvation.

HABAKKUK 3:18