Can I actually see my unwanted burden as a personal gift? This is the day to start a swag gas with Anthony on 89. Sometimes when you're in a dark place, Christine Kane said, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted. How to turn burdens into blessings, obstacles to opportunities.
And as we said before, weights into wings. Well, number one, to see that all knocks at your door is a gift. All Anthony, all knocks at my door. Yes, all.
If only to say no, for example, to an unwanted and unhelpful guest at your door, strengthening your resolve to ignore the unnecessary distractions in your life, then having said no is actually a blessing. Having strengthened your character is a gift. Optimism, Ambrose Beer said, is the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. We are not in control of what happens to us.
I think we know that by now. But we are in control of how we choose to respond. A recent conflict within my own family, okay? It was painful, time consuming.
It is all the discussion and argument and apologies and rediscussions and everything else. It was heart-wrenching. This conflict has led to a whole new level of connection. And I dare say love among the family members who were involved, including me.
Maya Satoranam. And I quote, you really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.
End quote. See all that knocks at your door or even see all that crashes on your front door on your life as a gift. We recently launched a new show called Change Makers on Television. And one of our featured guests was Food Giant Potato Corner CEO Jose Jomag.
If not for the brain illness Jomag spoke about this, that he experienced a number of years ago, he wouldn't have rediscovered the value of family. The importance of prayer, the power behind humbling oneself and asking for help. Now he says every day he is thankful because just being alive is a gift. How to turn a burden into a blessing.
It is to see every knock at your door as a gift. As the brothers of Josef pleaded for mercy and forgiveness and okay even pardon in Genesis 50. This is the story of Josef the Dreamer, right? The now second in command over all of Egypt that's Josef only had this to say.
And I quote in verse 19, I believe, don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done. The saving of many lives.
So then don't be afraid, he says it again. I will provide for you what a blessing, right? And your children and he reassured them and spoke kindly to them. And verse, turn that burden into a blessing, that obstacle to an opportunity, that weight into a wing by seeing all that knocks at your door as a gift.
What else is there left to do but to receive it? . . .
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