Be Real

There are some who have the keen awareness of everything wrong in the world — everybody and everything — and they share it far and wide. They don’t miss the opportunity for a negative review. They are the cloudy pessimists. There are others who only see and/or comment about the good. They are the sunny optimists.

I like to think I’m a realist. There is no life where it’s all roses and rainbows or all gloom, despair and hopelessness, regardless of your station, status or class. I hope to encourage others with edifying statements of positivity, while also acknowledging the struggles and evil in the world, with the resolve to do my part to help eliminate it. We can’t fix what we don’t acknowledge…but it does no one any good to just blast negativity without any constructive solutions and/or lessons learned through those experiences.

Which one are you?

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. ~ Nahum 1:7