Well... another week has passed my friends. I'm not sure I am any wiser but I have a few things to share with you that I have learned over the past week.
1. When something happens to delay your plans, there is always a reason. For instance, on Sunday night, our plane back to London from Rome was delayed. Yes, I did start to get impatient & frustrated. But we all came to terms, later on, that God was probably protecting us from something. There is a reason we were delayed & although we may never know what that exact reason was, we should really adjust our attitudes to begin thanking God for protecting us from whatever was in our path.
I think we always look at situations which don't go as planned in a negative way... But why? Honestly, most of the time, these situations don't go our way because God has a better plan. Why are we so quick to think the worst & get frustrated? My goal for the week has been to become less frustrated when things do not go my way. Instead, I turn around & thank God for protecting me from whatever was out there.
2. I'm still trudging through Battlefield of the Mind. It's a book which needs to be read in bits & pieces in order to digest it for what it is fully worth. I have been very open with you, regarding my struggles here in London. Well, today's section was about difficult situations. Yup, I understand that feeling completely.
"Fort his commandment which I command you this day is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off." Deuteronomy 30:11
What exactly does that mean, you ask? Well, to me it means that God ill not give you more than you can handle. god will not throw something at you & expect you to do it all on your own & laugh as you struggle. No, God allows challenges but only what you can handle.
"Even when we are determined to press through and do something, we spend so much time thinking and talking about "how hard it is" that the the project ends up being much more difficult than it would have been had we been positive instead of negative."
Well Joyce, you got me on that one.
My new goal for the rest of the semester (37 days I have left... not counting or anything) is to look at the positive & refused to spend my time thinking about or talking about how hard it is being abroad. Honestly, I am living out a dream many people have but can never achieve. So here's to being positive & realizing that although there may be struggles, God will not give me more than I can handle.
&& he will be by my side.
The entire time.
Wow. That's a great feeling, right?
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