Our car got hit again! I’m really starting to feel like a fender magnet. Sheesh! Anyway, this week at church I had the opportunity to reflect on the roller-coaster like lives of some of my friends and family. Big things, like being diagnosed with cancer, miscarriages, losing jobs, getting jobs, etc. I wonder sometimes how I cope with it all. Some people seem to be emotionally devastated by these major shifts in their lives. Sometimes small things, like losing a fender off a car, seem to be overwhelming. As I hear of these things happening to others, I subconsciously wonder how I would react if that thing were to happen to me. How do I decide what is a little thing and what’s a big thing? Why do I seem to not have a huge difference in reaction between little and big supposedly traumatic events in my life? After serious reflection – 2 days! – I’ve decided that I have a system in place in my mind that helps keep me on a fairly even keel (stop laughing at the concept of me being stable!). I want to share that system. If you’re still reading this, I congratulate you! My way of coping with these things that happen unexpectedly, and are emotional triggers in my life, is to put the events in perspective eternally. I’m not just a person on planet earth trying to make sense of my mortal journey. I’m just an eternal child of God away at school for testing, just for the afternoon. When my test is done I’ll return home to live with Him in Heaven. Many of the artificial goals we set for ourselves here in mortality fade away and lose importance with that choice/perspective. This mortal environment of my home and my job is so very temporary. As an example, it becomes more important to live the law of consecration and share my resources with all than it is to stockpile and ensure my own readiness for physical events that might occur. It’s more important to be kind than to aggressively pursue a promotion at the expense of a friendship with a coworker. It’s easier to cope with bended fenders and broken dryer filters. It even makes it easier to cope with the news that a friend only has 6 months to live because she is dying of cancer. Is it morbid to wish she could call from the other side and give me insider tips on Heaven, or am I just weird?OK, so maybe sometimes I think maybe I’m insensitive, yet too emotional - being a cold shoulder and a crybaby at the same time. But I do believe that my faith in Heavenly Father’s plan for our happiness does give me the ability to smooth out the bumps in my life, so to speak. That’s my grain of mustard for today.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:05:49 +0000
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