Silver Lining

Trip to Durango, Silverton, and Ouray

So hopefully most of you have seen silver lining playbook... Which is amazing by the way, but does have alot of fowl language. So beware! It definitely sparked my interest considering my work in mental health. Not such an accurate depiction of someone with bipolar, but it has a good message and is entertaining nonetheless.

Ever heard "every cloud has a silver lining?" They really do... You can see the sun shining behind creating a silver lining on the edges. Never really thought about it in the literal sense until I watched this movie.

Webster's Dictionary; silver lining:

Benefit from adversity:something that offers hope or benefit in a situation that is generally adverse.

Really there is a silver lining in every bad situation in our life, but we have to have the glass half full attitude in order to see it.

I catch myself everyday going through life and getting irritated with small, daily adversities and not to mention the huge things in life that have thrown me for a loop.

Like really Walmart? Clean the hair off your basket wheels so they drive correctly. Your laughing, but I KNOW you have thought the same thing. Instead, I should be telling myself, Thank God I can buy groceries and have a place to buy groceries because there are starving people all over the world. That gives me hope to keep shopping while my basket steers and nearly knocks into the lady with a cane next to me. :)

Or really guy that just passed me in your fiat just to switch lanes and decide to go 50 on the highway. Who will later fly past me going 90... Repeat... Repeat. Thank you Jennifer Lopez, I'm blaming you for this one! But really, I should be more like thank God I'm not driving a fiat. I'm joking. Thank God I have legs to drive, gas in my car, somewhere to go, and probably people that love me waiting at my destination. And yes that is a benefit in this adverse and frustrating situation that happens to me EVERY single day while driving to work! 

“Most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us almost every day.” 

― Matthew Quick

Very true, I know I do. I know those examples might not be such large adverse events, but ones we experience on a daily basis. I have had huge adversities in my life, but once I have found the silver lining things always seem to turn around.

One consistent silver lining in my life is God's love for me. Somedays I might feel he loves me more than others, but I know he is always there to pick me up when I've fell on my face.

Psalm 34:19

"Many are the hardships of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all."

I think God sometimes gives us situations in our life so that we seek him during those times. Because really when I'm laying on the beach, drinking a margarita, you think I will be looking for him to deliver me out of the darkness? Well no, I am instead thankful for the light. 

But when I get home from my oasis and find someone has broken into my house and crashed into my car, he knows I will be looking for my God to save me and give me hope. (This did not happen to me by the way just an illistration. Knocking on wood now.) Now do I think God makes bad things happen to good people? No, not necessarily. I just think we would not perhaps look to him for help unless in midst of chaos. 

Isaiah 45:7

"I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am, who does all these things."

God does do all of these things and through my life I come to realize that he has always been my silver lining. I just have to remind myself sometimes.