Walk On or Stay Down

There's a lot I could write about today but the main thing I would like to share is the power of decision making. 

Life is made up of decisions. 
  
I was watching The Help last night and I heard one of my favorite quotes by Constantine Jefferson:

Every day you're not dead in the ground, when you wake up in the morning, you're gonna have to make some decisions. Got to ask yourself this question: "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" You hear me today? "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today? You hear me today?" All right? As for your mama, she didn't pick her life. It picked her. But you, you're gonna do something big with yours. You wait and see.

 I grew up hearing bad things being said about me and having bad things done to me. But I still hold my head up high and walk on.

I wont lie that I have days, even entire weekends where I feel as though my walls are caving in around me and I cannot breathe. But then I remember that I have the choice to either let my past get me down or let it be a building block to something greater.

In my last post I mentioned that I was reading a book that looks at Psalms 23, well I finally finished it a few weeks ago. I highly recommend it to ALL. This book helped me realize that God's love and guidance over my life were so much greater then the crap I had been through in my past. He helps me "lie down in green pastures," (23:2a).

When the flashbacks of my past and the nightmares keep me awake at night "He anoints my head with oils;" (23:5b) and calms my heart. 

So when life beats you down and you feel you can go no further remember that you have the choice to either allow it to pile on top of you or let it build up under you and lift you higher to the potential God has for you.