Don’t sit on the cactus
“Being negative only makes a journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.” - Joyce Meyer Joyce is and has always been one of my favorite Christian speakers. She bluntly tells it like it is and I long to have that personality. But what she says is always true, whether we want to accept it or not. I read this quote while waiting in the car rider line with my children and it struck me that this is my life now. I have been given a cactus and I have been sitting on it. No wonder I was such a “pain in the rear” (no pun intended). I would mope around, cry, blame it on someone else. I was not a happy wife or mommy to be around yet I couldn’t turn it around. It was like I was living in this bubble of negativity that couldn’t be popped. I’ve read and listened to a lot of Joyce’s sermons. So many, in fact, I could probably tell you her life story. She has become a huge mentor to me. There are still plenty of times where all I can be is negative. I mean -