I just think work this past week was way to stressful for me. Finding out I am the 2nd in charge and then trying t figure out what that means on my own. Switching schools on me for a few days. Switching people at work on us for a few days. Then if that wasn't enough I chose to dog sit my brother's dog while they were out of town. Trying to make it to all of the wedding things for my friend this past month. I haven't even been able to go home for about a month or longer now. See all that I am trying to be in one month and worse in one week. If that didn't put enough on myself. I also showed up to church late last night because I wanted to go to that certain one. I couldn't go to any other on a Sunday morning.
Do you see what I am trying to be by myself? It is funny too because I had a feeling the sermon last night was going to be about self-control and let's just say I am bad at that all around to start with. I was trying to have control over everything I do and I failed at the most important time when a friend or couple of friends needed me the most. Maybe that is what God is trying to teach me and He had me go anyways last night because He knew I needed the message from Him?
I am trying to be a good friend, a good sister/dog sitter, a good teacher/2nd in charge, and a good daughter while also trying to take good care of myself and I can't do all of that. It gets to be too much sometimes. I took a mental day off Friday just because I thought that would help some but honestly I think it made things worse. I really can't do that much when my routine has been thrown off in every way, which this past week it was. Everything was new to me and I am not in my own house so that is hard too. I'm not complaining about anything because I know I picked all of this to do. This is just a lesson learned for me. I can't be everything all at once something has to give. I really didn't get the whole message last night but I got bits and pieces from it.
It is funny to think about but this past week and sort of mouth and/or summer has been a reckless one for me. I say that because my pastor said that "Recklessness" is the opposite of self-control. He also went on and asked the question: "Am I taking care of me?" and gave some ways to check and see if we were. Ways like: Allowing my brain to rest, am I sharing how I really feel and what I am really like, am I doing a heart check, and so on. He also gave us some verses that I thought went neat with self-control but you would never though of them that way or at least I haven't. Here they are:
-Romans 12:1-2
-"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
-Romans 6:13-14
-"13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace."
-John 6:29
-"29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
If I have learned anything from missing my friend's wedding last night, it is this:
"Don't try to do everything by yourself. Have some self-control. It will get you to great places in the long run."
"Self-Control is not something to only think about when you are tempted with bad things but it is also something to think about in the everyday little things and how much you put of anything in your life."
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