It's Going To Be a Beautiful Day.

These are the words written on a card on my desk. They greet me each and every morning.
You see, something that I've really been learning is that perception changes a lot about the world around us. Our days have the ability to either be stunningly beautiful, or stiflingly awful. However, our emotional state isn't determined by what has happend to us. The quality of our day isn't determined by the highs and the lows that come at scattered moments throughout the day. The phrase, "It's going to be a beautiful day" has absolutely nothing to do with what happens between the time that I roll out of bed, and the time that I crawl back into it. On the contrary, the beauty of my day lies in my perception.
We will all have bad things happen to us, and we will all have incredible times as well. What makes a day beautiful is the way that I take what comes my way. I like to look at it this way:
Life is like a baseball game. We will have a thousand balls pitched at us on any given day. Some pitches will be nice and slow; right down the middle. Other pitches might be wild and curving, but you can't duck. You can't duck the scary pitches because if you duck, you just might miss something beautiful.
You see, even though some of life's "pitches" might be crazy and scary, there are still more pitches coming. Life's an adventure, and by letting the "bad pitches"decide if things are good or bad, you cripple yourself. Through Him we always have hope in a brighter tomorrow, and that He knows what He is doing. Although some of the pitches may suck, there are beautiful pitches coming that you can knock out of the park.
We can't let negative moments get in the way, because by looking at the hope we have in Him, everyday is a beautiful day. Everyday, we have hope because everyday we have Him.