I hope this isn't putting myself too " out there" type-a- deal. Hopefully someone feels they can relate to this and it helps. We are all figuring out who we are, I don't think it stops at anytime or at any particular age!!! :)
It seems to me that everyone has moments in their lives that cause heart ache, pain, tears, joy and happiness. It’s inevitable, you feel all of these emotions and more throughout your short journey on earth. The real test is how you handle them. When you have cried all the tears you can cry for the moment do you just wait to cry again? When your happy, whether it be for yourself or for someone else, is it temporary? Or is it long lasting? I know we can’t be joyous all the time and that being depressed or upset for to long would be draining..so when is enough enough? And when it is enough, what do you do with all of these left over emotions?
Finally I have the answer to this question. I was shocked but really I shouldn’t have been, to find that the answer to this question is the exact same answer to every other “ in depth” or “ thought provoking” question I have ever had. It’s God. You give it all to God. It’s so simple and so predictable, yet not.
At some point we just have to realize that we are not in control of our lives. We may think we are but we are far from it. By giving God our emotions, our fears, our thoughts, everything we are submitting to his amazing plans for us. For we could try and try but never get very far on our own.
Sometimes when you have something you take it for granted. I am 100% guilty of taking advantage of my relationship with God. No ifs and or buts about it.
God so desperately wants us befriend him. Just to spend time with him. Why we seclude him from the most important parts of our lives I will never know, because I do the exact same thing. I not only want God to be in my life, or to take part in my life but I want him to BE my life, my everything. And it’s hard. Remembering to say your verses and read your devotions, or pray every night can be difficult. But it’s not about the routine it’s about the heart. Is my heart in the right place? I am who I say I am?..... A child of God? Does it show in my everyday life? We need a lifestyle change not a crash diet.
Set up good habits, make new friends, utilize your God given talents, be more positive. Honestly, it can’t hurt to try it out, what do you have to lose? You can only gain. And by trying you put a smile on God’s face.
