It doesn’t take much for “things” to start getting to you! If you watch the news, it can get you down in a hurry. If you listen to reports about the economy and the national debt, it can wear on you. If you listen, even, to certain brethren in the church, you will begin to think that life is horrible and people are mean and all is doom and gloom.
However, for those who are children of God, there 
are too many good things on which to focus and rejoice in life than to let all the bad things tear you down. Jesus loves you! That ought to pick you up! God is the One who reigns on a throne and is in control! That ought to pick you up! Christians are God’s chosen jewels on this earth and the object of His special providence! That ought to pick you up! Every day you wake up is one day closer to heaven! That ought to pick you up! One day Jesus will come, pick you up and take you home! That ought to pick you up!
Add to these precious thoughts your many blessings in Christ! That ought to pick you up!