How We choose to Take It

  How We Choose To Take It

It’s not what has happened to you in your life-

Though it may be heartache, deep anguish or strife;

The circumstance, outward, will not make or break-

What matters is how we will choose each to take.

So sad you may feel about what came your way-

You’re tempted to think you “can’t live one more day:”

Or else you can search for a person or place

Where someone needs love and be shown God’s great grace.

To crawl in a shell, so depressed, one may choose,

Believing that “they were created to lose;”

Or else count the blessings which still you possess-

Assured there are others in deeper distress.

Some say “life’s not fair, and that it can’t be borne,”

Neglecting to see fragrant roses midst thorns;

Or good we can seek and endeavor to share

God’s love with the needy, to show them His care.

The pain of the past need not dictate the pace,

Nor shall it determine just who wins the race:

For through Jesus Christ we can conquer and win,

Despite what we’ve been through- what pain we’ve been in!

The winning or losing can never be based

Upon all the things God allowed one to face,

But strictly in choosing the Lord as our Guide,

As Lord of our life – to walk close by His side!

                                                                    -Keturah