focusing on what's left will help your relationships...

david had lost a child and he was grieving but he dealt with it. and grief if not dealt with will hurt your relationships.

2 samuel 12.24 (ms) says, david went and comforted his wife bathsheba. and when he slept with her, they conceived a son. when he was born they named him solomon.

yes he had lost a son but he still had friends, family, loved ones. he looked at what he had left, not what he had lost.

you say, "i don't have much left!" you do, too! you have your life, you live here in the greatest country of the world. you have friends. they will be here. you have a lot more than you're looking at. but you've got to give up your grief.

self pity is much more damaging to your life than any tragedy you'll ever face because it perpetuates the pain long after the pain should be manageable.

remember the movie, "ordinary people"? a family was destroyed from within because they did not learn how to deal with the grief. they didn't know how to let it go.

some of you are still holding on to grief from the past and you're taking it out on relationships in the present and that is not fair to yourself or to them! you've got to let it go.

just a thought from the front porch...