Not what is lost but what is left

I wrote a post last evening, but it read more like whining than ice cream, so I took it off. Today my brother and I were talking, and this topic came up. What do we focus on when life's course takes you in a direction seemingly away from your hopes and dreams? It is the glass half empty, half full idea. No one would fault you for looking at the negative, and it is all so easy to do. For some reason, looking at the positive is much harder. Maybe is has to do with gravity. Going up takes quite a lot of power, even a feather needs a breeze to give it lift. But down? Everything goes down, without any effort at all. Our interpretation of Heaven and Hell are the same...Hell is slippery downward easy, Heaven is high and lofty hard. It requires angel's wings. We so often settle for easy, when hard is where we want to be. Thinner, stronger, smarter, happier...dreams that take work to become real. So focusing on what is left in our lives, instead of what we have lost in our lives, takes intentional, persistent, daily determination and attention. Let the shadows of the past fall away. Live in today's light. Look up, Heaven is there.