Tragedy or Triumph: It's Your Choice

We can focus on the negative or the positive.

That's our choice.

But the outcome of our thinking will reflect what's in our minds. Negative thoughts produce a life full of sadness, trouble, and unfulfilled hopes.

Positive thoughts produce the opposite.

Maybe you're reading this and thinking:

Sure, this sounds good, but my life is filled with severe health challenges, or I am being repressed by society or persecuted by  evil people.

So were these people and look what they did with their lives:

Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear, but after a childhood illness she could do neither. Despite that, she learned to read and write and got a bachelor's degree.

Marie Curie lived at a time when few women became educated. But she became one of the most important scientists of her generation.

Pope John Paul II lived through the Nazi occupation of his homeland, Poland, but became the Pope and had one of the most influential papacies in history.

Don't look at the problems; see the possibilities.