From My Journal, entry on 11-1902011:
Each person has a different fate from his neighbor. Some are luckier than others. Some suffer so much that it seems tragic, unequal and unfair. Why things happen the way they do is one of life's great mysteries.
Whatever happens to one, the correct, upbeat response is critical. Self-pity and a fatalistic surrender to what has just occurred to one are non-starters. One has to commence right away to make things better, but one has to commence from where one is at right now, not where one wishes one was at.
As Saul Alinsky wrote many years ago, the revolution starts from where you are at. One requires a loving faith and a enduring relationship with God to give one the resources, courage, means, confidence, will and sense of optimism to keep struggling upward, as a way of bettering one's situation.
One needs to identify a sensible plan of action for making things move in the right direction. One must sport an encouraging attitude--that irrepressible belief by effort and a plan, suffering may be ameliorated or converted into an opportunity. With a plan formulated and adopted, one needs the tenacity and grit to carry out the plan of recovery and renewal.
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