Seizing the opportunity.

What good does bitterness offer you?

If, as many others do, you thrash about in the wilderness of anger and disappointment, you will fail to see the opportunities that God will lay in front of you.  Anger and disappointment blind us.  If not that, they distract us.  They make it impossible to keep our eyes open since when we rage, we squint and thus we cannot see all that surrounds us.  If we instead accept what the present moment is offering, if we simply move forward through it doing whatever task is in front of us, we then have the serenity necessary to be an observer.  Observation is our way of recognizing the next thing we are meant to do.

It is not the circumstance of one's life but what one does with the circumstance that is important:  choices, outcomes, and knowledge gained from outcomes.

When you reach a turning point and must choose between bitterness and serenity.  What is it that you intend to do with all of this bitterness, I ask you?  
Elizabeth George: What came before he shot her pg 448