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Everyone Can't Be in 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!


Ask God for wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of your life.

What can you add to that? - Well said, Gerry!

Wow, what a great affirmation. I could certainly give this a re-read from time to time, as I'm particularly guilty of being too trusting and open about personal issues. Maybe someday I will learn to make everyone earn my trust instead of giving it away so freely. While I do believe that people are basically good, I've found that I'm way too gullible and that confidentiality means less to many people than it does to me.

I have come to realize that the tiny number of out GLBT people in this area makes it interesting since there are so few people with whom to socialize. Over the last several years, I have found myself socializing with several people who I probably wouldn't spend much time with if I were in a larger city and more likely to be acquainted with people of similar thinking. Lately, I've been so much happier with the *quality* rather than *quantity* of my friends. I hope that makes sense. I'm not sure how else to put it.