No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. I like to keep this perspective in mind when I'm thinking about whatever bad thing may be going on in my life. Last week I heard an interview with the golfer who choked and threw away his lead at the Masters last year. He said, "if that was the worst day of my life, I'm better off than most people." What a great perspective.
It's easy to get bogged down in looking at the things that aren't going your way. If you're not careful, you can start to think things are really bad. In reality, things are rarely very bad. There are always things that you can choose to be thankful for.
The last thing you want to do is think that things can't get any worse. I feel like this is just inviting disaster. Go ahead and imagine how things could get worse, then be thankful that none of those things have happened. And if some of those things do happen, then be thankful that all of them didn't happen.
If you're willing to choose to focus on the good things going on, even when there are bad things going on, you'll find that the bad things don't seem quite so bad.
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