Your Front Row
Life is a theater - invite your audience carefully. Not everyone is spiritually healthy and mature enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or at least minimize your time with draining negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships/fellowships!

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention to: Which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?

When you leave certain people, do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you? When you seek growth, peace of mind, love, and truth, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.

You cannot change the people around you...but you can change the people you are around! Pray for Godly wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of your life.

Very inspirational. I enjoy reading inspiring wisdom.

Oh yeah? Try it if you're bedridden. Having said that, I have prayed for positive people to come into my life and I have some amazing friends that drop in to see me - all positive, we all have so much to chat about, that they tell me they love coming because it actually relaxes them to visit me. That's certainly a nice compliment, but I feel their visits encourage me greatly, lift up my spirit.

My theme this year, absolutely.

Amen! The "front row" analogy is very apt.

Thought provoking! thanks for sharing

THANK YOU CHARDKAY!!! I've recently made some decisions about family members who do not fit the bill of 'front row'. Your post is extremely validating and I am grateful for your posting it. Guilt is easy to come by when moving people to the back row. But staying in or expecting close relationship with people who do not support me in any way is not worthwhile for them or for me.

Same for me. During Christmas Eve, I was ambushed by SIL. No need for her to get into my grill. I kept telling her that is none of her business and I wish not to discuss. After that, I have decided to keep my distance from her and she's not worthly for my "front row". To top it off, she got a good gift from us from the bath and body works. I hope she felt unworthy and stupid for what she did.

Sweetie, I had to 'walk up and down the aisles' thousands of times in my lifetime in order to learn this lesson of whom I should delegate to the back row or even the balcony!

Another thought, you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. Let the guilt go, it makes your life so much easier.

Thanks Chardkay. :-)