Do you expect your life to be better six months from now? Maybe, you expect to be dealing with the same struggles or even more misery in six months. Life always meets our expectations. We usually expect the worse without even realizing it. We live believing that nothing ever really changes for the better. We expect our lives and circumstances to remain the same. We cannot see our circumstances improving for the better.
The reality is that our lives are shifting everyday. Our lives are changing whether we are aware of it or not. If we are living through a difficult period, we cannot assume that the future will be more of the same or worse.
We fall into the habit of believing that our circumstances are permanent traps, which we cannot escape. We think we are being punished for our past mistakes. We believe that we made bad choices, so now we are paying the price for our mistakes. We believe that life just keeps sending bad luck and misfortune to us. We may not have faith in ourselves to find a way out of our current circumstances. We may even believe that we cannot ever escape or climb up from misfortune while others can do so. Life is never working against us, even in our darkest times.
When we are going through difficult times, we have to remind ourselves that it is temporary. We may not know exactly when the tide will shift, but we have to believe that it will do so. We may not know exactly how our lives will improve, but we have to trust that better days are on the way. We cannot worry about the details of how. Where we are now, we cannot anticipate all the forces that will come to our aid and create a shift. We cannot foresee all the opportunities and possibilities that will be opening up to us in the future. We have to be open to better days coming before we see them coming on the horizon. We have to mentally prepare for better days, even if we see no visible signs of a change coming our way.
Personally, I do not believe that life offers rewards and punishments. Our circumstances are here to teach us a valuable lesson about living. Our circumstances are not really our fault or anybody else's fault, despite how they may seem. Our circumstances may be difficult for us to handle, but they are what we need right now. We are going to benefit from these circumstances instead of be denied or blocked by them. The sooner that we can stop viewing ourselves as helpless, powerless victims of our circumstances, then we are putting ourselves in a position to learn and grow from our circumstances.
The Creator did not put us on this earth to live a horrible life filled with one misfortune after another. Living has nothing to do with luck. No person is more lucky or unlucky than another person. Every person will have periods of highs and lows. We always have to believe that better days are on the other side of the difficult times.
Be ready for better days right now. Remind yourself that you are dealing with a temporary difficulty. Pay attention to your life. Be on the look out for guidance about how to improve your circumstances. Pay attention to the messages that appear in your life and the people that come into your life. Learn to see possibility and hope in a situation where hope seems long gone.
Find the lesson in your situation. Your circumstances are always creating benefits and opportunities for you to learn a powerful lesson about yourself. Focus on figuring out the lesson instead of wallowing in self pity. Feel blessed instead of punished by circumstances. Your circumstances may challenge you, but there is really a purpose behind it that will benefit you. You may be dealing with uncertainty and undesirable changes, but your life needs these growing pains to move you to the next level of living. Expect something beneficial to come out of your circumstances. Believe that there is a lesson and benefit in your circumstances, even if you have not discovered exactly what they are now. The benefit will become apparent to you in the future.
We were probably taught that it is child's play to hope for the best. We think we are protecting ourselves from disappointment by expecting our circumstances to stay the same or grow worse. We tell ourselves we cannot have hope if we do know exactly how everything will work out. It is perfectly acceptable to have hope in the face of difficulty, even if you have no idea of exactly how everything will work out. By having hope, you are putting your trust in the Creator's wisdom to guide you and send resources to help you. Your hope suggests that you do not need to know all the details, but you simply have faith that everything will work out for you.
If it is too difficult for us to completely have hope that better days are coming our way, can we at least be emotionally neutral about the future? By emotionally neutral, I mean we have a wait-and-see attitude about the future. We are not predicting the best or worse to happen. We are simply waiting to see what unfolds.
Never give up hope for a better life. You are never cut off from a better life. Our circumstances can always change in unexpected ways. Unexpected opportunities can come our way. Helpful people can come into our lives to help us move beyond our circumstances. The Creator is always working on a solution to our greatest challenges. We need to always have faith in the Creator. We need to have faith in ourselves as we have the ability to figure out a way to move beyond our circumstances. We simply have to believe in the possibility for better days and prepare for those days now. Never tell yourself that this is it and the way your life is always going to be. Remind yourself that this is just temporary and your life will get better. Get in the habit of seeing light where it appears that only darkness exists. The light is coming.
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