Yesterday, I had a difficult day. Today seemed like it was even worse, but there was a difference. Yesterday, I felt like I was fighting everything. I was trying to control things that weren’t in my control, and I wasn’t paying attention to the things that I could control. When I wrote my post last night that’s exactly what I wrote about and what I prayed for.
Today, there were plenty of things that happened that could have caused me to be upset and angry, but I realized that all of them were out of my control. I couldn’t do anything about any of them. There wasn’t any reason to waste my time or energy getting upset. I just let it go.
Some of the things that were bothering me yesterday, I took a proactive role. I changed the script not by trying to change the behavior of those people around me but changing my own behavior.
I guess that’s the big lesson that the last two days have brought to me. When the world around me is irritating and people are getting on my nerves, it is a waste of time to get angry and wish the world was different or that other people were different. Instead the best course of action is to see how I can change and how by changing myself, I can make the world around me better. After all, I shape my own reality.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
