War & Peace

Today has been somewhat eventful. It’s been terrible, yet wonderful, sad, but funny, long yet short. I wonder if you’ve ever had one of those days where everything went wrong at first but by the end of it you look back and wonder why it got to you so much. It got me thinking things that us humans let get to us really isn’t as bad as they seem. Going through the storm always seems worse than when you look back at the storm. I guess this is the same thing as when something bad happens to you and it hurts, you cry out and cuss but when your friend tells you they gone through the same thing it doesn’t affect you.

How is it, at the time, I was having a terrible day someone else out there was having a wonderful day? More so it made me think that sorrow, hurt or anything that gets you angry is only for a moment. Now I feel fine, after my madness today I sat back, prayed and let it die down and amazingly it did die down. You know sometimes you’re going through something and the person says calm down, don’t worry you feel to just tump the person but today I learnt that it works.

It seems that patience really does diffuse a situation as before today I would have let off shots.

Sometimes experience is a virtue.

Looking at my past experiences where I did kick off I look back and noticed I reacted with my first reaction. Sometimes your first reaction isn’t always going to work, our emotions don’t really work for us but yet they work against us. If this is true then we don’t need emotions when we have a problem, its unnecessary and has a negative reaction almost all the time. For example, what’s the reason for shouting? If we speak in a normal tone the person still hears us, do we think they will hear us anymore than they would normally? When we lash out physically is it because you need to hit the person or is it because you’re not mature enough to communicate in a likely manner?

The bible says to not hate, fight, speak evil or anything on that level and when these things are preached to us, we say ok, fine I won’t but soon after when something bad happens again we can’t help but lash out again. It made me think that simply hearing the do’s and don’ts of our faith isn’t actually enough to keep us from doing it once were tempted. I feel we must understand the actual reason for the reaction and what it leads to, this way if you know the outcome of your reactions you won’t do it, not just because you’re taught not to.

Consequently, I now look back at past problems I’ve had and consider them to be minor even those that seemed like life or death. How is it that time can actually heal, I thought, then I realised it’s not time that heals. Time heals nothing! It’s our patience and experience that makes a mountain a molehill. With this said, I thank God for my past hurts and trials because what use to affect me doesn’t anymore and I would know that unless I had been through them.

Thankfully also the latter part of my day was fantastic, had some chicken shish and it was niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee took a step back and had faith and my problems solved themselves.

From now I’ll be more patient in decisions as my emotions are not sufficient and are very selfish sometimes selfishness breeds disappointment.
Thought of the day is: If a care is too small to turn into a prayer then it’s too small to be a burden and if you’ve prayed on it then believe God has got it covered!!!

God Bless
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