“Perception and Prescription”
It hurts to hear so many people hurting. Most of the time it’s over relationships, who they’ve let in their lives.
Sometimes we need to assess the people we surround ourselves with.
Really ask ourselves, are they a blessing in our lives or a distraction, do they uplift and encourage us or do they tear us down? Do they constantly put us down, gossip about us when we’re not around? (We know they do, because we hear it from from others). When you walk away from them, do you findyourself feeling less than who you are, feeling you don’t measure up, or feeling like a failure after spending time with them or talking with them?
Then maybe we need to take a moment and assess who we are hanging around and letting into our lives.
The Bible does say, iron sharpens iron. Truth may hurt sometimes, rebuke is never fun. God will place loving people in our lives to challenge us, to speak the truth in love, to bring correction when we need it. But if they are not willing to come along side of us, to encourage us, to help us get through the hard times with us, to love us enough to help us in our weeknesses to grow stronger, then it’s time to pray new people in our lives.
This life is hard enough without hearing a bunch of gossip, criticism, demeaning comments from people who make us feel like failures or that we’re just not good enough and they want or feel the need to control us. Those are toxic people to have in our lives.
Pray for new friends, people who care enough to correct you , but also encourage you. People that may see a weakness but will come along side to help strengthen you until your strong enough to run the race in that area. People that will speak life into your life and are truly happy to see you succeed. Those that will honestly listen to gain more understanding and that will cry with you, laugh with you, people who you can share things with and know it will stay just between you, them and God and to find those that want to help but don’t push their own agendas on you, to control or threaten you.
It’s time to make healthier choices in whom we surround ourselves with.
God loves you and there are people who do appreciate and cherish each and every one of you. xoxo
— Like every other prescription, her advice will only help us if we take it. I know what that means for me…how about you? Pray that we’ll have the strength to take our necessary actions.
joescheets 
Wow!
I have written more than one memoir essay on this subject and I am surrounded by toxic every day! My problem is that it was easy to have the divorce on paper, affording to change the environment. My plans at the time turned out to be a future of even more toxicity (that woman turned out to be crazier than anyone I have ever met and I am blessed I found it out before a move. Since that paper was amicable, I pay rent by cleaning, doing dishes and the like. My sleeping arrangements in a recliner is less than ideal, but real! Sometimes extraction is difficult. However, I was able to get off that merry-go-round of dysfunction/toxicity of my family and gave my family semi-healthy distance, so I know, God will help me with this as well. I know he will present an avenue for change!
The prescription is taking longer than some of the ones I take orally, yet I am hopeful. I have to be!!
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