Hi.
I wanted to start this blog – because there is a real need for encouragement today. There are so many people hurting and not enough people able to say that things that they need to hear to lift their spirits and encourage their hearts and I want to be one of those people that can do so; and to also provide a place that can give you the things to encourage you to keep going. When things get hard to keep going. When you don’t think you can - to keep going. To tell you that whatever you want to happen in your life is possible and hopefully to provide you with the tools to change your situation.
I don't want to be unrealistic in my encouragement and make promises to you that your life will just get better on it's own. Or portray the picture that happiness will just "happen" to you – because quite frankly, life REQUIRES your participation and this life is what you make it. But the promise that I will make is that it is not as hard to turn your life around as you think it is and it gets a lot better when you realize that change begins with you and that YOU and you alone (with the help of God) are responsible for your own happiness.
Maybe you're hurting. Maybe you're depressed. Maybe you're just bored. Well I've been all 3 - even suicidal. A place where it’s bleak and dark and you don’t think that life is worth living anymore and you want to give up. You know why I didn't? Because I wanted to see my better day – somehow I knew that I had one coming. You've got to know that too. But if I didn't withstand the storm that I was going through – I would never have seen my better day and you know what? I am seeing it and things are getting better - one day at a time. God is rewarding me for sticking with him – even when I didn't understand him and when I didn't think I needed him and when I didn't think he even heard me. I learned that the word of God is the key to the handcuffs that Satan has put on us. I've learned that he is my best friend. I learned where God resides. . . .in us; and I've learned how to talk to him and how to get the answers that I've searched for all my life and now I want to share them with you.
Life doesn’t have to be difficult. Life can be great. Life is frankly, what you say it is. There is a place where we can arrive where we are totally happy and are happy just because it’s Thursday and not because everything is going right in our lives. Life is great – you just have to think that it is because in THINKING that it is so. . . .IT IS SO. Sounds too good to be true?? Well, it is for this reason that I have called this blog The Operating Room. The place where the magic happens. . . your mind. Mind is the place where things begin to change, where things begin to get better, where you begin to understand and your understanding in turn thus influences your actions. Your mind is The Operating Room. It is where you create and bring things to life - it is where you live by faith and as your faith grows - thus so will your happiness and you’ll turn around and realize that life IS great and you'll wonder when your happiness happened again and what the heck you were crying for??? But the only way you’ll get there is if you don’t quit. If you don't give up. Life is a journey for all of us and we've got to fight back if we're going to win and you can win - all you have to do is fight - but don't worry - it is a good fight. Why?? Because it is the fight of faith and guess what? Faith Wins!!!
Believe me I know what it is to cry and not want to go on, not to want to get up and to go anywhere – to not want to live. I know what it is to talk to people all the while secretly hoping that they'll say something to brighten your day, to give you hope. . .to save your life. I call them emotional hitchhikers I'd recognize one anywhere because I was one. Those of us who are or were desperately searching for an understanding heart when it seems that no one understands or can say exactly what it is that you need to hear to keep on going and to touch that place inside of you where you thought you were alone. You are not alone. I've been there and there are plenty others who have been there as well.
So here is the place that I want to share with you life advice and various things that I've picked up along the way on my journey learning from my experiences and hoping that they'll help you as they have helped me.
So read the words that I share with you here and let them encourage you, let them empower you and let them touch you in a way where you can relate so you can get your happiness back and not only get it back but keep it!!
Happy Living,
Chris
I wanted to start this blog – because there is a real need for encouragement today. There are so many people hurting and not enough people able to say that things that they need to hear to lift their spirits and encourage their hearts and I want to be one of those people that can do so; and to also provide a place that can give you the things to encourage you to keep going. When things get hard to keep going. When you don’t think you can - to keep going. To tell you that whatever you want to happen in your life is possible and hopefully to provide you with the tools to change your situation.
I don't want to be unrealistic in my encouragement and make promises to you that your life will just get better on it's own. Or portray the picture that happiness will just "happen" to you – because quite frankly, life REQUIRES your participation and this life is what you make it. But the promise that I will make is that it is not as hard to turn your life around as you think it is and it gets a lot better when you realize that change begins with you and that YOU and you alone (with the help of God) are responsible for your own happiness.
Maybe you're hurting. Maybe you're depressed. Maybe you're just bored. Well I've been all 3 - even suicidal. A place where it’s bleak and dark and you don’t think that life is worth living anymore and you want to give up. You know why I didn't? Because I wanted to see my better day – somehow I knew that I had one coming. You've got to know that too. But if I didn't withstand the storm that I was going through – I would never have seen my better day and you know what? I am seeing it and things are getting better - one day at a time. God is rewarding me for sticking with him – even when I didn't understand him and when I didn't think I needed him and when I didn't think he even heard me. I learned that the word of God is the key to the handcuffs that Satan has put on us. I've learned that he is my best friend. I learned where God resides. . . .in us; and I've learned how to talk to him and how to get the answers that I've searched for all my life and now I want to share them with you.
Life doesn’t have to be difficult. Life can be great. Life is frankly, what you say it is. There is a place where we can arrive where we are totally happy and are happy just because it’s Thursday and not because everything is going right in our lives. Life is great – you just have to think that it is because in THINKING that it is so. . . .IT IS SO. Sounds too good to be true?? Well, it is for this reason that I have called this blog The Operating Room. The place where the magic happens. . . your mind. Mind is the place where things begin to change, where things begin to get better, where you begin to understand and your understanding in turn thus influences your actions. Your mind is The Operating Room. It is where you create and bring things to life - it is where you live by faith and as your faith grows - thus so will your happiness and you’ll turn around and realize that life IS great and you'll wonder when your happiness happened again and what the heck you were crying for??? But the only way you’ll get there is if you don’t quit. If you don't give up. Life is a journey for all of us and we've got to fight back if we're going to win and you can win - all you have to do is fight - but don't worry - it is a good fight. Why?? Because it is the fight of faith and guess what? Faith Wins!!!
Believe me I know what it is to cry and not want to go on, not to want to get up and to go anywhere – to not want to live. I know what it is to talk to people all the while secretly hoping that they'll say something to brighten your day, to give you hope. . .to save your life. I call them emotional hitchhikers I'd recognize one anywhere because I was one. Those of us who are or were desperately searching for an understanding heart when it seems that no one understands or can say exactly what it is that you need to hear to keep on going and to touch that place inside of you where you thought you were alone. You are not alone. I've been there and there are plenty others who have been there as well.
So here is the place that I want to share with you life advice and various things that I've picked up along the way on my journey learning from my experiences and hoping that they'll help you as they have helped me.
So read the words that I share with you here and let them encourage you, let them empower you and let them touch you in a way where you can relate so you can get your happiness back and not only get it back but keep it!!
Happy Living,
Chris
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