Steven Bradshaw

We recently received an offer to buy our house. We moved out of it 2 years ago. So, I should be jumping for joy that it is finally gonna sell. But, I’m not. House prices have fallen so much that we are going to have to empty our savings and borrow some money to make the deal work.

And if that weren’t enough, I just lost my tooth! I lost the whole thing. Crown. Post. All of it. More money…gone.

For a while, I was frustrated with the whole thing. But I have decided to gain some perspective on how truly blessed I am. So, here are 7 reasons I refuse to let it get me down.

1. There are people in the world who have never and will never own a house. I have and probably will again.
2. I know lots of people who have lost jobs or who now have jobs that they don’t like. I am working at the best job I have ever had. It’s so good that it’s difficult to even consider it a job.
3. I know lots of people who have had to suffer through families being broken by divorce. I have seen the pain in a child’s face when their parents are divorced. My parents are still married (over 40 years now.) My wife and I are still married (16 years) and we’re gonna go the distance.
4. There are people in the world who cannot afford a $10 net that could save the life of their infant by keeping malaria-spreading mosquitos away. I don’t worry about my kids getting malaria…at all.
5. There are people in the world who don’t have food to eat and don’t know where there next meal is coming from. According to poverty.com, 25,000 people will starve to death, today.  I haven’t missed a meal in this whole process.
6. There are places in this world where children are abducted to become soldiers. They are forced to participate in horrific acts to desensitize them to killing. I never worry about this with my children.
7. There are people in the world who have never heard the Good News about Jesus Christ. I have heard the Good News and have been saved from a perfectly just eternal punishment and have been given a relationship with the Creator of the Universe, meaning and purpose, and eternal reward.

So, I still have a little financial difficulty. But, perspective has helped me see that it’s really not bad, at all. So, what gives you perspective? How have you been blessed?