I took this story from Aaron’s most resent blog that touched me.. I want to share it with you because I think this is worth sharing! Read on and I encourage you to take a moment. It took me few days to digest and I’m still digesting now. Come to think of your life. How things can turn out if you were to be like this guy.
“John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. "Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim.....or......I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining...... or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."
I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I'd be twins Want to see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live..... or...I could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. He continued, "..The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the Expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John." She asked if I was allergic to anything. “Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity’. “Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude........I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Think Positive & Live.”
Now, this story really touches me when I read it the first time around. I almost broke into tears as I ponder more on this story. As I ponder further I’ve come to realise where is God in the whole picture?
I don’t know if this story is real or not, but I know that it is very hard for a man (and women) to be like so in the story. As for me, I can say that there must be a focus in life. The focus for us human on earth, a creature created in God’s own image is God and God alone. If a non Christian can be positive of life, what more we as Christian can offer in the salvation in Christ that we have?
I’m being very dangerous here in making this statement as such. As a Christian, as we go through the trouble of life. We acknowledge the trouble we face, be it sad, heart broken, financial problem and etc. We acknowledge it as we allow God to take charge of the situation that we are in.
Acknowledgement is a BIG word. So don’t take it lightly in this context. It takes perseverance and lot more than what we can take. Even to the stage where we need to let go of our problems.
Acknowledgement of your problem to Christ is not escapism.
8 in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss; having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; 9 having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;
2 Corinthians 4:7-12
I’m on Paracetamol (panadol la) for a week now. With the growing frequent of headaches, have me no choice to do so. Today is my 1st paper; well I did not that good. But praise the Lord I’m still able to take the exam. During the 3hourse paper feeling of throwing out and bursting into loud shout because of my pain!!
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