One thing I learned in my latest round of therapy is that it's really important what thoughts we give free rein to. We encounter all sorts of situations that are challenging in many ways, and some ways of thinking about those challenges are helpful while others can be a hindrance, or even downright destructive.
I'm feeling a bit paralyzed over my resume and job search. I am not, really; I'm just acting like I am. No, yesterday there was no time, but that doesn't mean there never is. Likewise other things that I know help me be the person I'm supposed to be.
Writing this was a better choice than other things I could have done with this couple of minutes. So is this: thank you, Lord, for your many gifts, most especially the loved ones who are visiting us this week! And thank you for sustaining all of us during very challenging times. Help me to think always of your love and your constant presence with us, the strength you give us which is immeasurably greater than our own! Help me put aside my pride to lean on you; help me to overcome my feeling of not knowing how to lean on you; help me to just give myself over to you even as I acknowledge that I don't know how. And help the people I love do the same.
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