IMG_9786Someone read my brochure this weekend and asked, “So what exactly is an eternal optimist?” Without launching into a theological treatise, I told him, “It is someone who believes things are going to ultimately work out. Not that bad things won’t happen. But, when they do, I believe we’ll eventually get to the other side.”

I’m not sure I live with a glass-half-full attitude. Sometimes my glass is completely empty by the end of the day. But I don’t panic. I usually just go to bed on time and remind myself we can get more water tomorrow. (Or iced tea. I actually hate water.) The glass won’t stay empty forever.

Being eternally optimistic doesn’t mean I’m always smiling. I have Mondays. (Despite my mother’s best attempts to remind me that God made Monday’s, too.) I get tired, sick, discouraged, overwhelmed, lonely, worried, and basically blah. I just don’t stay there. Because I do believe that, no matter what, no matter who, we really will win in the end.

Of course, even my optimism has a catch. It requires God. All of Him. Fully, fiercely, forever in control for those who belong to Him. He is the Eternal part of Eternal Optimism. And He always wins.