The other day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about the differences between pessimism, realism, and optimism. We hit on the subject of obnoxious optimists, you know those people who are in your face that everything is rainbows and daisies, nothing is ever wrong or could ever be wrong. I was shocked a few days later to find that I am, by definition, an obnoxious optimist. Oh yes. Me. I found this out when I went in to work one day after not sleeping that night because of a really hard conversation I had had. I told my coworker what had happened and followed it up by saying "But its okay, I know it'll all work out." The truth is that it will all be okay. No matter how poor the circumstance God will cause all things to work for my good because I love Him and have been called according to His purpose. He knows the plans He has for me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, to give me hope and a future. He will never leave me nor forsake me and nothing in all creation (not even me!) can separate me from the love of God. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than I could ask or think according to His power which is (already) at work in me! So no matter how bad a day I'm having (and I have some pretty bad days), no matter how many people are yelling, no matter how many times I get hurt or how confused I am, I can always say with confidence, "Its all going to be okay!" Because I know that "the Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid, what can man do to me?" That doesn't mean that you'll never catch me crying or unsure of what to do, it just means that I know that the Lord will bring me through. He makes all things beautiful in His time. :)
Grace and Peace,
Rose
Grace and Peace,
Rose
