What is my focus? Is it on my HOPES or my FEARS?
I can get so caught up in what makes me angry and how I want to change it—make it different. This only aggravates me and does not serve anybody else. Keeps me in fear. I can focus on my anger, or choose a different focus. Every decision I make affects the way I frame each day.
My pastor was talking about this very thing last weekend. He said to ask ourselves this question before we speak or act:
“Is it wise?” Wow. I needed to hear that. Sometimes saying or doing nothing is the wise thing to do. It may not be the “right” thing in my mind, but reacting out of my own anger and fear is not constructive. If I trust God and not my own thinking, the situation usually corrects itself without my help. What a concept.
In our 12 steps, it says we try to practice these principles in all of our affairs: "Step 12—Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry the message to others who still suffer, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
I always seem to rise to the occasion and step up when the big stuff happens—disappointments, loss, death. It is the small stuff that throws me over the edge. The little stuff builds.
My husband said to me this morning, “I know I have it good, when my biggest problem is that the newspaper didn’t arrive this morning.” —said with a huge smile of gratitude on his face.
That’s what I call “broken shoelaces” I am trying to keep my focus on God’s will, not mine. That keeps me focused on the hope and not the fear in any given situation.
Let the choices we make reflect our Hopes and not our Fears.
I choose not to live in FEAR.
"Fools give full vent to their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back.”
Proverbs 29:11
"I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.”
1 Corinthians 6:12
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