The Front Row by Cupcake Brown

LIFE IS A THEATER -- INVITE YOUR AUDIENCE CAREFULLY.Not everyone is holy enough or healthy 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 (and others from a long, long 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, and 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 up hill and which ones are going down hill?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?The more you seek God and the things of God -- the more you seek quality.The more you seek not just the hand of God but the face of God -- the more you seek things honorable.The more you seek growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you -- the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW, who should be moved to the balcony, and who should be booted from the theater 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. Cupcake Brown

I found this article on Cupcake Brown's website http://www.cupcakebrown.com/. I read her book about a month ago. Her mother died when she was 11 and she was sent to abusive foster homes. She ran away and became a drug and sex addict. The story has a good ending as you can tell from the above article that she wrote. (Her book in on my Shelfari list too, A Piece of Cake) Jeanie