Don’t skip over your sorrow, there is wisdom it wants to teach you.
-Dr. Henry Cloud
God uses all circumstances & scenarios to teach us if we are His, and to try and reach us if we aren’t.
My recent fall has taught me a few things about myself.
This being my second minor blow to the noggin, I realized I have been on the go too much without enough of His energy to keep me going.
Lesson #1:
Doing for the sake of my glory doesn’t bring Him glory.
As I have been needing more rest after this latest physical ‘adventure’ I have been learning to discern between laziness and my need for rest.
Lesson #2:
Its okay to listen to what your body needs, but you need to filter it through what He needs for you to do each day.
I am not the same person I was a few years ago, nor even the same as I was two weeks ago. I have been listening more, to myself, to others and to God. I find I don’t miss talking as much as I thought I would. I have to control my impulses a bit tighter, as emotions occasionally flare sharply where they used to start with a slow burn.
Lesson #3:
Not everyone will get you have been going through changes on the inside. Be yourself anyways.
Taking the necessary time off to recover has made it more clear what I need to do less of, or leave behind, and what is most important to me.
Lesson #4:
When you say no, and people don’t like it, remember: Not my problem. Sometimes, you have to say no to good to say yes to the best.
There has been one change I noticed the most over the last few years since my first concussion. I am a bit numb-er to extremes. My temper doesn’t blow as badly as it used to, but I also don’t get as excited as I used to either. A few things that used to really bug me don’t bother me at all anymore, and a few things I used to love to do don’t have the same thrill.
Lesson #5:
Over the passing of time, the touch of His hand and life lessons, things will change. I will be okay. He’s got me through it all!
I don’t like to lose, I don’t think any of us do. Most of all, I don’t like feeling like my life is out of control. Quick breath. This situation has revealed to me the truth to me in a most abrupt and earth jarring way…
Lesson #6:
I never was in control.
He always has been, and always will be in control.
Thinking I was was a lie,
knowing I am not is freeing truth.
What lessons have you been learning through the sorrows that have come your way?
The final lesson I will share with you all today?
Lesson #7:
It’s okay to cry.
My tears when I am upset by things in my life are healthy release for me, and matter to God.
So much so that He collects them in a bottle with my name on it!
KARLA LEES 