Turning Negative Actions into Positive Thoughts
Jon Gordon, author of The Energy Bus, in his blog recently stated the key to overcoming challenges lies in the ability to fight negative forces with love.
Attempting to use love to overcome anger, I have been examining my reactions to my children’s anger and determining how I could have met that negative energy with love.
Here are some things I know:
- I must love the struggle with my young adults because it makes me appreciate their intelligence when we work through a hard place together.
- I must love challenges because they make me stronger and cause me to change in ways I would not have done before.
- I must love the competition of fighting for time with their growing interests, hobbies, and jobs because it makes me better at appreciating their time as well as my own.
- I must love the negative people that say I will never be close to my adult children because they provide an opportunity to practice positivity in all my relationships to other young adults I know.
- I must love my adult children when they hurt me because they teach me forgiveness.
- Most of all, I must love my fear in this new journey with adult children because fear makes me more courageous.
Often, as the parent of young adults, I fail to see the benefit in the hard emotions of parenting because this is a new chapter in my parenting journey. Since this is foreign, my mind says, “This must be wrong! I have never done it this way before!” New signals growth. New can signal an even better relationship than I previously thought possible.
New might mean more honest and mature.
Anger might be the immediate reaction to growth on the horizon; instead,
meet it with love, and positive thoughts will replace negative actions.
I must seek BETTER through love.
How do you fight negative actions with positive love? Leave a comment below!
