Friday, March 14, 2014

Don't sweat the small stuff!

While listening to a well-known “Dr.” interviewing a man about his abusive behavior, I heard him. He said something that I had not heard quite that way before. You can’t fix a problem if you don’t acknowledge the problem. You can’t acknowledge a problem if you have no idea you have it. So what to do if you “know” you have a problem, but don’t have a clue what it is? The suggestion was made that one would benefit from comparing past relationships (in his case) and figure out the problem that way, narrow it down to 2 possibilities – either he chose the same wacko each time or he IS a big problem. That’s great. He was able to narrow it down with the help of the “Dr.” What if you don’t have that objective outside helper; that one person you don’t have to pay $200.00 per hour to give you a hint? Sadly most folks don’t have that one person in their life that they trust to help them turn their life around. How about family? Do you really trust anyone in your family to be objective? Maybe they would be, but do you “trust” their opinions and observations? The same goes for friends. Do you trust at least ONE of them to have enough common sense, enough Christian love and enough honest caring for you to be deeply honest about what they know to be true, not what they have heard from other people? Now, let’s make a bold assumption that you have that ONE person who will tell you what you “need” to hear, not what you “want” to hear. Will you listen? Have you enough trust, enough common sense, enough Christian love and enough caring for yourself to be deeply honest about what they tell you and take it to heart and really “hear” them. You’ve chosen the person. They have told you the truth. All you have to do is act on what you have learned about yourself. Simple, huh? For about 15 minutes it’s real simple. Then along comes a pebble, then a rock, then the sure enough big stumbling block. That is when a mentor is invaluable.
I was told a few years ago that I had a problem. I asked the one who told me, "What do I do to fix it?"

The response was, "You're a smart girl, you'll figure it out!"

Well, I wasn't that smart. I didn't figure it out and that's okay because the need to figure it out has long since disappeared.

It only just occurred to me that they didn't know how to fix my problem either because they didn't know what it was and they just may have been a big part of it. Such is life.

Onward and always upward. ;-)
It just shows me that:
You can't sweat the small stuff and most of it is VERY small stuff.
You can't understand everything so don't try.
And GOD will make all things work together for good for those that love HIM, and that's a fact!

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!

Romans 12:1
Psalm 51:17
2 Corinthians 4:16
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