“it could’ve been worse”

Guys I crashed a dirt bike We are adventurous type of people, and my mom signed us up for dirt biking( we thought it would be in the snow) it ended up being in the Sierra-Nevada desert in the back countrySo we were riding on this one trail, and the path narrowed in like a v-shape, and I was doing fine then my tire just caught and my whole bike flipped side ways pulling me underneath it… I slammed my head and landed on my leg. At first I blacked out and didn’t know what happened, then I realized the bike fell on me. I immediately “put it in neutral” like our instructors said in our crash course then I started laying on the horn to see if anyone saw me crash or if they’d turn around for me…I got nothing until they realized I wasn’t behind them. Sometimes we feel like that in life… like God isn’t there when you need Him. When you crash and burn in the decisions you make or sometimes just the hard lessons you have to learn. But let me tell you what was going on in my head: I got really upset, angry almost, and started thinking why me, or of course this happens to me, or I’m sick of this, but you know what all those thoughts are? Victim mentality…I’m not saying bad things don’t happen and that you can control them all or sometimes the things you can’t control, but I’m saying how you think coming out of bad things. There’s a typical question out in the world: “why do bad things happen to good people Truthfully I don’t know. But what I do know is that adversity doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you. It’s a WHOLE PERSPECTIVE CHANGE. This trip y’all was not the smoothest, but what it was, was an eye opener. I changed my perspective in that moment when I felt like getting fired up and gonna go off, I quieted my thoughts and said “It could’ve been worse”. Yes bad things happen to good people. But it makes you who you are, it adds character or can even build your character if you allow it.

Funny story the entire trip kinda went south but after I caught myself blowing up or going off, I immediately thought damn hold on it’s not that deep, breathe, let’s say three things we’re grateful for… or let’s pray… to say the least my family started mocking me in a humorous way, because in the moment nobody wants to think that way, they want to be mad or stay mad.. however there are actual studies showing that the people who aren’t depressed are the most grateful. Everyone is going through something right now. I’m not telling I’m yelling right now, THAT IT COULD BE WORSE. The glass could be empty, but what if it’s better than you thought??!? What if it’s only temporary?!? When man goes on their own understanding, that’s the only understanding you’ll get…And it could be wrong. God didn’t leave you! God didn’t abandon you! You woke up today! You stopped living when you got hurt! Don’t be stuck. Live. You woke up today for a reason.

If you don’t know God or Jesus, and are curious I’m here for you to talk about it. I would love to share with you the peace I experience in my storms or in my worse…. But he reminds me He has better for me, He is better. You can be better, you can have better. ”Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”“ ‭‭John‬ ‭11‬:‭43‬-‭44‬ ‭NLT‬‬ WALK OUT OF THAT GRAVE!