Sunday Lessons: Choose to conquer your circumstances.

I'm a girl who walks in fields of grace. I walk in bright daylight, past sunflowers and daisies and butterflies.

For the past week, however, my days have been so murky. I was feeling too much, alternating between happiness and sadness in whiplash-worthy intervals. I felt like I was running from bright fields to dark valleys and back again. 

But it was there, in the darkness, that I realized how grateful I am for the light. I realized that there's no place I'd rather be than in the light--forever basking in it, forever seeing it, forever following it.

"God will bring you out of darkness."

We will all experience darkness; no one is exempted from it. We can choose to stay in the dark. We can choose to embrace it, love it, live in it. Or we can conquer it. We can choose to call on God, get up and seek for His light.

I choose the light. I will always choose the light.

"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things."

                                     - Philippians 4:8