What's the Good In This?

Okay, so on our first day of in-service this year we watched a little movie made by a guy named Dewitt Jones. He was a photographer for National Geographic. The movie is super motivational and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. (Thankfully). He uses his experience as a photographer to teach this simple yet powerful message...What good do you see in every situation? It's simple yes and very common sense, but how often do we go that route. I have more often than not been very easily pulled into the black hole of negativity and just kept myself sinking deeper and deeper into it by focusing on all the things that were wrong or bad. It takes one little shift in thinking to make a difference you'll notice the rest of your day.

I say all this to say that each day of this week I've had a bad start. Usually when my day starts bad it's a downhill spiral of which I can't get off. But this week, a small thought kept creeping into my conscience asking me to find the good in the situation...What's good about it? In wracking my brain to find the "good", it totally took my focus off the bad even if I couldn't find much good. It's been a good switch and has kept me from talking and harping about bad situations. There really is good in all things...even if the good is not immediate, it's there, under the rubble and beneath the smoke, there, waiting to be grasped if only we reach for it.