Life can be so grumpy sometimes. So overwhelming, frustrating, and stressful. Especially around the holiday's... which is so unfortunate since it is meant to be a time of joy and celebration. But it turns in to finals for college students, party-planning, decorating, cleaning, and christmas shopping for families, bills to pay, presents to buy, money worries.. it turns in to stress. We all have stress. Some perhaps more than others or in different ways, but we all have that mental to-do list constantly hanging over us and haunting us. But in the chaos and the overwhelming stress God has such a unique way of forcing me to find perspective and relax.
He makes me laugh at myself. When I try to do too much, worry about too much, fix too many things, and solve too many problems I always lose focus and do really silly things. He reminded me twice today...
First, I am a "worry wart" to say the least. So the second final exams were over for me, I started to check panthernet constantly to see my final grades. So for days I've been checking...and complaining because none of my professors had put my grades up yet. YUCK, not proud of being a whiny, worried, complainer. But anywho, as I was checking my grades today, I realized I'd been checking midterm grades the entire time--instead of final grades. WOW. As I sat at the computer frantically looking at my grades, I just started giggling at the irony of the whole situation. How silly my worry was...how meaningless my stress.
Then I went into Publix to do some grocery shopping. As I was checking out at the register, I set my wallet on the counter by the credit card machine while I began to read a very important email from one of my professors about a huge project I had done that practically decided my final grade for that class. I was completely enthralled by this email and lost all concentration. I heard the attendant faintly repeat my total as I quickly began to rummage through my purse to find my wallet. I grew frantic immediately and I just thought "well, i must've left in my car." So I told the woman I would run to my car really fast to search for my wallet and apologized about a hundred times on my way out. As I searched my car in a panic only to find absolutely nothing-- I immediately went straight into the mindset that someone must've stolen it out of my purse in the store, when I wasn't looking. Just as I had begun to have a small breakdown, the sweet lady from the cash register runs out saying, "ma'am, is your wallet silver? because I think you left it on the counter." My oh my. What a silly moment! Yet another point that God just hit me! All I could think was "I think the Lord just really wants me to relax and enjoy everything he's given me."
It truthfully made my feel SO much better to just laugh at myself...to just take a few moments to be silly and enjoy the humor in life. So in this stressful season, take a few minutes to be reminded of why life is so beautiful and how the Lord relentlessly pursues us... even to the point of just trying to make us laugh when we're overwhelmed. Oh, How he loves us.
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