Choose Your Lens: Shifting from Shame to Gratitude in Every Circumstance

One can observe their circumstances—and their perception of reality and truth—through a lens of shame.

Yet the same action can be seen through a lens of gratitude.

For the one who is immersed in shame sees a circumstance as proof of downfall, as if they fell for it, while the one of gratitude views the same circumstance as a pit that not only was avoided but even embraced—for the sake of the journey that was and was overcome.

Both emotions lead to thoughts. Those thoughts validate a reality. And that reality is crafted by the power of perspective and reframing.

You must choose—no ifs or buts about it.

Will you choose to look up and rise, or look down and stumble?

Will you accept with love and in love, or dwell in the contaminated and compromised well of shame?

In the end, you get to choose which water to drink from—and which to pour.

You—and no other.