Or do you say "Why not me?" exactly how do you handle these perhaps unpleasant or unwanted situations in this life? Do you see these as curses, lessons, just some random thing that happens? How do YOU look at these?
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-10-27 14:56:42 · 40 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I say thank you for the experience.
2006-10-27 14:58:20 · answer #1 · answered by *JC* 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nope. I try to figure out what I did to end up in that situation. If I really think, I can follow the trail of choices and figure out how I got where I am. THEN I choose to do something different to get out of the situation. OR...maybe I don't. I'm sort of overweight right now, but I was thin two years ago. I know how I got here. I know how to change it. And yet...I still have not made the decision to alter my current state - but I do know that I can choose to do that.
Even random situations are not random, although they may occur by chance. For example - if I get in my car to drive home from work at 6:02pm, and I end up in a wreck which is someone else's fault, I know that had I left work at 5:45 I would not have been in that spot at that time, and I would not have had that wreck. So...it was random, and yet not so random. It wasn't my 'fault'...but it was still the result of my own action in some sense. I was in a bad place when someone else made a bad judgement, and it affected me. Would I get out of my car, look to the Heavens and shout, "Why ME???" ? Nope. I would do what I had to do to move on.
2006-10-27 15:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by shannonfstewart 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My faith in GOD and my promise from Jesus keeps my feet solidly planted.I think I can handle almost anything. I have had a lot of things happen this year. We did not know that my dad had any heart trouble. He had a mild heart attack, drove himself to the hospital{he didn't know that he had had a heart attack} and found out he was 98 percent blocked.4 months prior, He found cancer in his kidney and had the kidney removed.There are a couple more things but I think you get the picture. When talking to my friend about all that has happened this year, she said "boy, you guys have the worst luck." I said to her" how can you say that, we have been so blessed.We found the cancer before it had spread any where. My dad had a minor heart attack which in all rights should have been a major one.Jesus never promised this life would be easy, it will be the next. If you know your Savior, He comforts you. GOD bless
2006-10-27 15:08:17 · answer #3 · answered by Piper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is like a pinball game. You have to get bumped and pushed around once in a while or you can't make it to the top. The noise the lights and rush of the the game are just the things that keep us wanting more, but without the "bumpers" we're just going to fall through the whole in the middle...
It's hard to see the good in the moment...don't even look for it. But later when things are starting to settle again it's good to review why things happened.
2006-10-27 15:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by SuzieQ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually I first am unhappy about the unpleasant thing, and after a while I remember that God can use bad things and turn them around for good. But the thing is, unlike you, I really haven't had anything BAD happen to me or any of my loved ones. Not yet. So I hope that when something tragic really does happen, I remember that God is there, waiting to do His thing.
2006-10-27 15:02:45 · answer #5 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, sometimes I do. But I like your idea of asking "Why not me?" instead. I try to remember that all events can be for good, or at least have some good in them, if we pay attention and look for the good. I see these unpleasant events as "opportunities for advancement." I had a teacher in junior high that always referred to a test as an "opportunity for advancement" and I have come to like this phrase when referring to life's tests.
2006-10-27 15:34:42 · answer #6 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's human nature to say oh God why me? I tend to want to question things that occur in my life or in the lives of my friends or family. But there is a God in Heaven and he works in mysterious ways, everything that happens on this earth is allowed to happen threw God and threw God only. What can be questioned about that? Although people wonder why do people die at such young ages why would God do that to such a young child, his children? God knows everything from the day of your birth to what is going to happen to you in every single day of your life. What if a 5 year old died tomorrow in a car wreck and you think gosh why would that be allowed to happen, God knows why, what if God knew that 6 months down the road that child was going to be diagnosed with a terrible long suffering disease and that there would be no hope for him because it was his time to go so he saved that child and allowed him to come on home to him and spare him the agony that life would have brought to him down the road!! That is the way that i look at things..
2006-10-27 15:26:02 · answer #7 · answered by Ash 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I look at them as lessons and challenges. God has never given me anything that I can't handle. Even when I think I'm lost, there's no hope. I go to God. He ends up being my hero. The problem wasn't that God didn't care, or wasn't listening, it was that I was just to stuborn for Him to help. Yes, God can do whatever He wants, but He doesn't mess with free will, and me not listening to Him was my free will not to. I know I probably sound preachy, but alot of bad things have happened in my life, and couldn't have made it without God.
2006-10-27 15:03:53 · answer #8 · answered by Dude D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When things get tough in my life I sometimes even cry but only for a min. I always pray to be able to have the strength to get through this also.
I do not allow my self to dwell on any hardship but rather i do what the bible says "throw your burdens on me". So I do. I give my burdens to God. Being human though I some times take them back and again I throw them to him. Anxiety will not add one more day -from the bible-
I refuse to let life get me down for any length of time. If I allowed it I would not have survived the things I have and still been able to love and laugh as deeply and well as i do. And I can really find laughter in everyday.
Rely on God and pray as often as you need to.
2006-10-27 15:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by ~♥ L ♥~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't create a resistance to life and accept everything what i;m experiencing in the moment this is not mistake soul is pushing the button for next change in the evolution and store in the record like hard drine in computer curses likely don't come unless puts hex on u nd will come back to their existence later or we create random lessons sometimes or the Way of life is facing us with new challenges bless u princess goddess
2006-10-27 15:12:22 · answer #10 · answered by george p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do not get me wrong; I do not want unpleasent things to happen to me. However, itis also possible, that those unpleasent things also help to make me stronger. As a person alluded to, David would have been 'just a shepherd boy,if it had not been for Goliath.
2006-10-31 13:45:09 · answer #11 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋