Keeping the Sanity

Many things have happened that have taken me away from blogging.
To keep my sanity, I have decided to start posting again.

Let me start with the words to a song I have learned working with young children at the church I attend:

"Now we have a world where people are confused.
If you don't believe it, go and watch the news..."

I know I feel confused and heartbroken every time I read the newspaper or even look through my Facebook feeds. Not a day goes by that I don't shed a tear because of the multiple postings of horror stories from around the world. If you follow the news (local, national, and international), you know what they are. No races, genders, and religions are exempt.

Yet, I know that among all races, genders, and religions there are good people. There are individuals who do their best to succor those in need of succor, to comfort those in need of comfort, to feed those in need of food, to pray with those and for those in need of prayers, and the list could go on.

I want to focus on these people, the good people.

Long ago, I started this blog because I wanted to bring a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Unfortunately, I let the cloudiness get thicker and thicker. Now I have to break through. If I want to keep my sanity, I need to detach myself from this negativity and look for the positive once again.

I am grateful to a friend who posted this on Facebook late last night:

"You have a choice. You can wring your hands and be consumed with concern for the future or choose to use the counsel the Lord has given to live with peace and happiness in a world awash with evil..." - Richard G. Scott

Let us all follow the counsel of the Lord. Whatever you call your God, look to Him for guidance and direction. Look to Him for comfort and peace. Look to Him for ways to bring a ray of sunshine to someone else.

Make it a goal to do a good deed daily. I know I have given this challenge before. I am renewing this challenge. I firmly believe that if we daily do a good deed, whether it be visiting someone who is sick or playing with a furry creature confined in a cage at your local pound, you will feel better, the person or animal on the receiving end will feel better and may be, one by one, we can change our community.

We cannot change the world unless we change ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Let's look for a ray of sunshine and let's be a ray of sunshine as well.