You know the kind I am talking about.
The wife is sick, so I am up early to take them to school.
The server is crashing, so I am on the phone with my webmasters attempting to resolve it.
The call comes from school. My son may have chipped his tooth. He can't eat anything solid, so I pick him up and buy him a bowl of soup and take him to the dentist.
Overwhelmed. Frustrated. Tired.
And it's just Monday.
But I am learning to keep perspective. I may have been taken off guard, but God wasn't surprised by any of the events of the day. He's just watching to see how I deal with them.
Do I freak out? Do I get angry? Do I let it out on the jerk in front of me who wouldn't know a green light if it flashed right in his eyes? Yes, I guess I do all of the above.
But then I remember that all my worry and frustration is truly needless. It doesn't get me anywhere or accomplish anything. Well, it does make my blood pressure go up, but it doesn't accomplish any GOOD thing.
And so there it is. Once again I learn that trusting my Father in heaven is the surest road to peace and tranquility. Today can fall apart. My business can suffer. My schedule can be interupted.
But one thing will never change, and that is His love for me.
And that... is enough.
It's Del.icio.us!
Furl It!
February 14, 2005 04:22 PM
Now if I could just turn that love into some cold hard cash I might be able to get that new sports car I've always wanted!
February 14, 2005 08:25 PM
Hey there Joel, how's you? I agree with you about not sweating the small stuff, although it is not always that easy to do. Even without a belief in God, being at peace with yourself and with the world, and knowing that somehow everything with be okay in the end is the best way to be. Needless worry accomplishes nothing, but the sad thing is that some people get so overwhelmed with life that it is difficult to see an end to the struggle and see any real good come of their efforts. I sometimes have felt that way, when life seems an uphill struggle that you always fall back to the ground and have to start over, but in the end I hope I will be better off than whre I started. As for MarcoPolo - nice joke, but you actually make a good point. If MONEY was not a necessity and LOVE was all that mattered, I thinkwe would all have better days. Unfortunately, even in Capitalist America it is sometimes almost impossible to live truly FREE - because money (or the need for it) controls in some way or another - EVERYTHING. Oh well, at least we can try to focus on that inner peace to help guide us along the way. Peace and love....
February 15, 2005 12:01 PM
The contrast of the two earlier posters is most often interesting and humorous at the same time. Marco's generally succinct installments held up against Robert's somewhat verbose insights. Hmmm, ;)this is what makes this site a daily stop for me. My dad used to say, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that his favorite Bible verse was, "And it came to pass". What made some of the events of life bearable was that they "came to pass" and not to stay. Hang in there Mr. Mayor!