Everyone Can't Be in Your Front Row

Life is a theater - invite your audience carefully. Not everyone is holy
enough and 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. 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/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 uphill and which ones are
going downhill?

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 and who should be moved to the
balcony 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.