A friend recently said about Facebook, “It should only be used to say funny things.” I kind of agree with him. I’ve made the mistake in the past of posting some things that frustrated me, and end up in tense situations that I could have avoided. So no, I don’t look at this as a place that’s really safe to open up and share. Having said that, I’m going to do just that- post something personal on here- because I had something really encouraging happen just now. I haven’t been sleeping well lately. There have been things that have me worried, and feeling weighted down. This morning I did something that is so elementary that many of you are going to read this and go, “Well, duh….are you just now discovering this?” Here it is- I wrote down the things that worried me- there were six of them. I didn’t know there would be six things until I wrote them all down. Before that it was just “a bunch of stuff.” But then writing them down and finding out it was really only six things made it seem like not so many. And then I prayed about them. What is amazing is as I was praying I realized that every one of these things was either something I could do absolutely nothing about to change, or something that would just work itself out in its own time. The sense I got from prayer was, “Just be patient, and let God help you live through this.” Anyway, that’s my helpful discovery- and it really did help. I’m not writing this to get a bunch of support and sympathy- My prayer time really left me with the sense that God is the support I need. (Although I have found that the Facebook community is really great and encouraging about that.) But my real reason for sharing is this: to hopefully let someone else know that something so simple, that I’m sure lots of Christians do- just writing down their concerns and praying over them- really does help. Yes, I feel like I just discovered the wheel a couple of thousand years after everyone else- but who knows- there may be someone out there like me who needs to be told, “Just try this simple thing- it works.” Shalom.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:05:39 +0000
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