Not long after I wrote this morning this dinged in my email. I just found this blogger and so far I am in LOVE. She's great! Hannah Help Me! Check out her post, "You Make You!"
Here is what I feel like God is saying to me...
YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES DO NOT DEFINE YOU. Circumstances don't change who you are.
Hannah goes on to say, "If you're angry when the kids are little, you'll be angry when the kids are big. If you're content, you'll be content no matter how much you have. If you're joyful, you'll be that way whether things are going in your favor or not."
This is good stuff. All that is going on in my life cannot be an excuse for me to do bad. I have fallen off the wagon on my diet and exercise. I mean like fallen off, hit the ground, the wheels are currently rolling over me fallen off. I've let my circumstances and more particularly the way I FEEL about those circumstances start to define me.
Here is what I know about myself:
I'm emotional ... sometimes, maybe a little too emotional.
I'm stressed ... most of the time a little too stressed.
I have not been in the word and redirecting my focus off of my circumstances and onto my Creator.
But God is bigger than my circumstances. He is bigger than my stress. He is bigger than my emotions!
I cannot control this situation. I cannot control how people are reacting to the situation. What I can control is how I respond and how I react. I can let my stress and my emotions push me to the point of exhaustion. Or I can lean into the One who I know has this ... and let him steady me.
I remember reading a Jesus Calling a while back that talked about living in the confines of today. That's what I want to start trying to do. Tomorrow has enough worries of its own and yesterday is already gone - I want to focus on the here and now. I want to be present. When I lay my head down at night I want to know I loved well and I lived in the moment.
What do you do to practice living in the moment?
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