Right and Wrong

Maybe knowing the difference between right and wrong is not always about morality. Maybe sometimes it is about how we meet the life that is in front of us.

Right is realizing that right here is where you are meant to be.

Right is experiencing the good when it comes, without clinging to it. It is experiencing the pain when it comes, without believing it has no purpose. It is being present enough to receive both the blessing and the lesson.

“When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other.” — Ecclesiastes 7:14

Right is gratitude—not only for what feels good, but even for the difficult seasons that shape us, humble us, and sometimes redirect us.

Wrong is fighting what is.

Wrong is believing life should always be different than it is. It is looking for what is missing instead of recognizing what remains. It is seeing only the injustice, disappointment, inconvenience, or pain and allowing those things to blind us to everything else.

We spend so much of our lives arguing with reality:

This shouldn't be happening.
I should be further along.
They shouldn't have treated me this way.
Things were supposed to turn out differently.

But our resistance does not change what has happened. It only adds another layer of suffering to it.

Acceptance does not mean that everything that happens is right. It does not mean tolerating injustice, remaining silent when action is needed, or pretending something doesn't hurt.

Acceptance means recognizing what is already here and trusting that God can meet us in it.

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.” — Romans 8:28

There is good here.
There is pain here.
There is God here.
There is something to learn here.

Even the difficult moments can become sacred when we stop fighting them long enough to ask what God may be teaching us through them.

Maybe knowing right from wrong is also knowing the difference between acceptance and resistance, gratitude and resentment, presence and fear.

The right way is not always the easy way.

Sometimes the right way is simply saying:

This is where I am.
God is here with me.
And I will not waste this moment wishing I were somewhere else.