Ever
have enough to fit in a 9"x12" envelope, but all you have to put it in
is a number 10 envelope? Or, as it is often said, you have 20 lbs of
stuff and only a 5 lb bag. Well, you get the idea. What is the most
common response or reaction to this situation? It's called being
overwhelmed. It's more than you can deal with even though God said (or
at least someone said that about God) He wouldn't give you more than you
can handle.
Well,
I was thinking about that today. I certainly have enough for a 9"x12"
envelope and I can so relate to the number 10 part not being enough, yet
what can one do with that situation? Being overwhelmed is the same as
being paralyzed, so that won't work. Thinking happy thoughts doesn't
seem to do it either.
Then
I thought that it is just the way I am viewing it that causes that
whole problem scenario to develop. If I view these issues as problems, I
am creating a scenario, or a short mental movie of the possible
ramifications, which in this movie are assured to be unpleasant.
This
led me to consider why these things are problems to begin with. They
are just things, or situations, or circumstances. If I wasn't attached
to them emotionally, they wouldn't have any power. It would just be what
is, even as obvious as that seems. Sort of like the air is and the
ground is and they clouds are and the wind blows and such. It is only
the energy I assign to it that causes what is to be a problem. And, it
is only my calculating how many problems I don't have immediate
solutions for that creates that thing called being overwhelmed.
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