Life is a theater - invite your audience carefully. Not everyone is holy enough and healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not going anywhere relationships/friendships/fellowships!
Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention to:
Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people, do you feel better or feel. Worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gifts that lies within you?
Some people bring unexpected lightness and comfort to your life. They crackle with energy, practically electrifying you with their presence. And then there are those who leave you stressed out or guilty or exhausted down to your last molecule. (But we won't talk about them). Friends come in all forms. Believe it or not our friends and acquaintences are much like a favorite song or at least the music we like to listen to, for example: some people are like Pop, Soft Rock, Easy Listening, Jazz, Old School, Rap, R & B and Hip-Hop. Still others may be Classical, Alternative, Grunge, Heavy Metal, even Acid Rock. But whatever form they take there is no reason for the rest of us to abandon our songs (i.e. ourselves) because of them. Maybe we need to sing our songs louder and assert ourselves. I think people need to start listening to the "music" of their heart. What kind of music (i.e. people) are you listening to?
The more you seek God and the things of God -- the more you seek quality, the more you seek not just the hand of God but the face of God--the more you seek things honorable--the more you seek growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
You cannot change the people around you...but you can change the people you are around!
Ask God for wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of y
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