Yeahhhh my train(wreck) of thought is that if I can put my feelings on hiatus for six months while I'm in Germany I won't have the stress over them! Hence the denial.
I iTunes-ed a bunch of sermons that I have yet to listen to; and one of the few I did hear gave me that perspective. The guy was talking about worry, and then claimed that worry can be defined as more than just getting sweaty palms and butterflies in our stomachs: Every time we recreate an old conversation in our head with someone else and imagine it going differently, or live out possible situations in the future, we're essentially "worrying". He went on to say that God doesn't want us being consumed with the past or the future; He simply wants us, as maddening as it sounds, to live in the Here and Now. Even if it means letting that awkward conversation stand as it is, or coming into a situation without 20 backup plans prepared.
Reliving experiences and imagining situations where everything goes as I'd like it to is what consumes me every single day; I think I stopped listening to the sermons because that one hit too close to home. >.>; Eeeeep.
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But really different from your last post.
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Reliving experiences and imagining situations where everything goes as I'd like it to is what consumes me every single day; I think I stopped listening to the sermons because that one hit too close to home. >.>; Eeeeep.
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