Putting Life in Perspective

Sometimes life has a way of putting everything into perspective for you, right in front of your eyes, at the most surprising of times. And yet, when you think back on the moment later, you realize that there was a bigger picture involved, the clues were there all along, even if they went unseen until the "right" moment.

Everything happens for a reason, it really does, but sometimes, those happenings and reasons have us questioning everything we know to be true, all we believe in a rely on. Maybe that's the point... sometimes we just have to rely on faith, whatever that might mean to each and every one of us.

No, I'm not talking about religion, organized or otherwise, but the act of faith, of unconditional, steadfast belief in something beyond yourself, something bigger or stronger or more eternal than you. That's what links us all together at our core, each and every one of us. And once we connect in some way with that belief inside ourselves, great things can and do happen. Even if the circumstances that got us to that point seemed hard or painful or meaningless. In a nutshell, perspective is everything, and our perception of ourselves and the world in which we live is the key to our own personal happiness.