perspective

I was looking at the pictures of my friends trip to NYC, and one picture stopped me, and I wrote it down.  It was a saying on a sign, that looked like was on the highway or something. it said:

Every challenge is an opportunity. 

It is hard to see the opportunities that lie right in front of us when we are challenging with something.  Bethany Hamilton inspires me in this case.  she lost an arm, but she still wanted to go surfing, and took 'being famous' as a chance to share her faith.  she used this situation to grow stronger with God.  in the movie, Soul Surfer, one of my favorite parts was the conversation she had with her youth pastor.  Bethany was trying to find the good perspective in the situation she was in, but she explained that she doesn't get how this is a part of God's plan for her life; and the youth pastor (Carrie Underwood) said this.  It's all about your perspective on life, and the situation.  you can take the situation as only a situation and deal with it like a situation, or look at it with a good perspective and take it as a challenge for your life.  no one said it will ever be easy, but also what Carrie Underwood, as the youth leader, said is that if you are dealing with anything that's just to hard to handle or doesn't seem to make much sense, get a new perspective. then she left that scene with a verse. Jeremiah 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord.  Plans to prosper you, and not to harm you; plans to give you hope and a future.

~amy