I don't like stressful times. I don't like how the issue or problem becomes the all-consuming focus in life and takes away precious time from other people or activities. It bothers me when words get misunderstood because of the intensity of a conversation and causes tension. It especially gets to me when the stress point is brought to a person's life not by any action of their own but just because of association.
So what causes stress anyhow? For me, I think it comes when something is going on that I think shouldn't and then I try to take control to fix it... or at least lessen potential damage. My Mama Bear instincts come out (and sometimes my claws, too) because I don't want any one - including me - to get hurt.
I was reading in Valley of Vision yesterday and was clobbered over the head with how God wants me to live and respond to life.
"Teach me to be resigned to Your will, to delight in Your law, to have no will but Yours,
to believe that everything You do is for my good.
Help me to leave my concerns in Your hands, for You have power over evil,
and bring from it an infinite progression of good, until Your purposes are fulfilled."
Some great words to make a prayer from my heart.
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