Rose-colored glasses

The more faith you have, the more you believe,
The more goals you set, the more you’ll achieve.
Remember no matter how futile things seem,
With faith, there is no Impossible Dream!
- Alice Joyce Davidson

Tuck this story into your memory. A gal who is remembered around the world for her mountainous hope was described as “being excessively cheerful and and unduly optimistic.” She was said to have looked at an impossible situation through rose-colored glasses.

Five days into a trip across the Atlantic on the legendary Titanic, Margaret Tobin Brown found herself bobbing around in a lifeboat in the freezing cold with fourteen other women and a prophet-of-doom officer. The officer insisted they’d never escape the undertow when the ship went down.

Margaret refused to give in to negative thinking. If this man wasn’t going to save this lifeboat, she would. She insisted they keep warm by fast-paced rowing during those daunting hours before they were rescued, and lifted their hopes with her indomitable spirit. She created survivor lists and radioed them to the families. She even raised money for destitute victims of the sinking, collecting almost $10,000 in pledges. She rightly earned the famous nickname, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life, but you…choose what the color will be”.
– John Homer Miller

You may write a note on your refrigerator to remind you that all things are possible. Take a moment to be thankful for the gift of rose-colored glasses. If you’re uncertain about something and find yourself slipping into negative thinking, make a point to zero in on the positive. If you can’t see through the fog, and your future is fuzzy, it’s a great opportunity to practice being optimistic.