“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
– Joyce Meyer

It was a typical July day in the Midwest. Hot. The previous night my wife Emily and I had returned home from a short trip to see my parents. My father, just ten days previously, had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

The phone rang, it was my mother. She said, “It’s dad…” and in the background I could hear something was going on; people talking and scurrying around. Then I heard my mother say to whomever else was there, “he wants to live!”

He didn’t live past that night. But he did live for 65 years. Which is more than some get.

How Do You Stay Positive no Matter What the Circumstances?

In pondering this question what first came to mind was: No matter how bad you think your circumstances are, someone else has it worse.
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