Chateau Lloyd

There are certain people who look upon every blessing as a curse waiting to happen.  They cannot simply accept good fortune and instead regard it as the preface to something awful happening.

I was like that for much of my life, conditioned to expect unrealistic outcomes and then embracing the idea that whatever success I had at the moment, they would be rendered null and void by future events.

This is utterly self-defeating and one of the ways that I have found deeper peace is by simply accepting every blessing as it is.  What happens next is nothing I can affect, so I will enjoy it while I can.

I mention this because no sooner have we experience a great a glorious victory, a deliverance from evil than people are already claiming that all will come to naught and that things are in fact going to get far worse than anyone can imagine.

There is a word for these sentiments: evil.  The Enemy rejoices in despair, and every time a blessing is denigrated or ignored, he rejoices.

Of course, one should not gloat (too much), or assume that from now on everything is going to be sunshine and ice cream, but one should at least take pleasure in the moment, while at the same time accepting that moments change.