We have all heard the saying “it could always be worse”. This saying implies that someone, somewhere is having a worse year, day, hour, or moment than you currently are. It’s the classic go to slogan when it comes to putting the idea of perspective into actual words. And we all know I am all for perspective, as I dish out a dose or two often. But please tell me I am not the only one who has thought “can it really be worse than this” once or twice in their lives thus far. This thought is not meant in a selfish sense but more in a unique sense. Like a person by person basis & not a person to person basis if that makes any sense. Like comparing this specific moment to all other moments in one’s life, is this the worst?

In a lifetime, we will endure many highs & lows. We never will know when the next drop off will occur nor will we know how deep it will go. We will never get a heads up on the amount of time it will take to claw ourselves back out of a hole or if we will ever return back into being the same person, or at least similar to the people we were before we stepped off the cliff. It’s inevitable. But some drops are deep & dark while others are deeper & darker. Some will take nearly a lifetime to fully recover from. And in a person by person basis, those moments might be as bad as it gets in your life. And the perk of this ideology is that it gives you the mindset that it can only go up from here. And that’s not a bad mindset to have. It’s a comparative mindset to one’s own life instead of to others. And since we really don’t know what the worst is for someone else because we aren’t walking the same miles they are in their shoes, it’s kind of ideal. And if you think about it, if you compare your life to someone else’s, that means that person is comparing their life to another’s, and the cycle continues. And ultimately this means someone has endured the absolute worst moment in all of humanities existence. Those are some pretty big shoes. And how can we side by side our worst to things like that? Especially when we know that God sacrificed His Son so that we might have salvation? That Jesus ensured all that pain & suffering so that we may be saved? How could I possibly compare something like losing a leg to that? You simply can not. And while thinking in that light does give a HUGE dose of perspective that we all need sometimes, I still think we need to view it as a person by person basis every once in awhile too. Here’s why.

In the timeline of our life, the timeline I believe God has created for each of us the moment each of us are conceived, there has to be the lowest point. You won’t know what that low moment is until you reach your end, but it’s possible that you hit it any age in your life. It could be one hour old, one day old, one year old or one hundred years old. The options are limitless. And dying is not considered your lowest point. Meeting our Maker & hopefully being granted eternal peace & salvation is not a low point. It’s a high high. But I do believe we can only hope & pray that any low low that we do endure & come out on the other side of is our worst moment. I can only hope & pray that losing my leg or almost dying after child birth was my worst as it gets. Because if you can make it through that, that means you can make it through the rest of your life. It can only go up from there. There will still be struggle, but you will honestly know how strong you are & getting through the tough stuff will be a little easier. Not a whole lot, but definitely a little bit. And personally, that’s all the perspective I need. And moving onward & upward might be a whole heck of a lot harder than the downward slide, but you get to control each step on the way up. You get to decide how quickly you reach that top. Because for each moment you spend on the up & up is that much sweeter after working your way out of the blackest of darkness. You get to say “I did it” & know the value of what those words actually mean. And that might be the most valuable thing in the world. So be honest, be aware & be ready for the next step you take. You’ll never know if you’re on the way up or down, but you will know that you can do it.

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