Recently my doctor told me that people don't like coming to her because they thought they were healthy until they came in for a visit and found out all the things that were wrong with them. Ignorance really can be bliss. This week I had similar feelings about my schedule. I didn't realize how busy I'd become until I got a new planner and started writing things down. Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why I'm tired at the end of the day! Writing things down on a schedule is a double edged sword for me. It helps give me a sense of what I've got coming up so I can deal with things, but if I let it, it will overwhelm me with trying to deal with everything that's coming up instead of breaking it down to one day at a time.
The last few weeks have been a combination of busyness for good reasons, stress for bad reasons and a whole lot of chaos that leads me to say "I don't how I got here, I'm not sure where 'here' even is and I really don't know where to go from here or where to even start!" It's in those moments that I start to get overwhelmed.
So what are you supposed to do?
This week I got some great advice. It's advice I've heard before but I really needed the reminder. My friend told me to take life moment by moment. And in each moment that you're feeling overwhelmed ask for God's peace. If you're overwhelmed in another five minutes, ask for it again. And keep going that way until you make it through the day.
See friends, when life is hectic I tend to want to pray once and have God give me enough peace for the whole day. Sometimes He does. Often He doesn't. He lets my circumstances be a reminder that I can't do this on my own. I need His help. Every day, every moment, in every situation.
Right now when my life is so busy I need to remember that more then ever. Because it's only with His constant gift of peace that I'm going to make it through the chaos and make it to the end of each day.
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