![]() And even though it sounds easy to move, we live in a highly competitive housing market and already have competition for this house we applied for. I will most likely stay stagnant in my health if I do not move. We live in a house that has black mold that is only both been creating illness and exacerbating already current health conditions. Although that sounds like an easy process and a pretty trivial matter, it’s very weighty for us. Right now, we’re praying this prayer as we submit our application to a house for rent. This is a time to accept the joy that Christ gives us as a gift, knowing that later we will have the ultimate joy with Him in the next. This clearly isn’t talking about momentary happiness that we experience because life is going well, if it was, the hardship part would have been omitted earlier in the prayer. This is the capstone of the prayer, that after asking for wisdom from God on taking action on the things we can change and accepting in peace that there are those things in life we can’t change, as well as living in the moment by forsaking the destructive elements of our past and the worries of the future, accepting that hardships will come, and humbly submitting to Christ that we will seek after His desires and not our own we now come to this portion- to be reasonably happy in this life. T hat I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. If I surrender to His Will : Christ’s becoming human, yet still retaining His divinity reminds us that we are not alone to face a world filled with unfairness.This portion of the prayer reminds us of this as well as remembering that Christ will turn everything that is unfair to fair. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it trusting that He will make all things right There has to be a purpose behind being confined to my bed 90% of the day, even of I’m not aware of it right now. But if Christ warned us that we will face suffering, there must be a purpose. ![]() Did it for you too? It sounds good…until you’re faced with hardships that are a little more difficult than just being out of milk for a cranberry muffin recipe on Christmas day when the stores are closed. This is the one that can cause me to cringe a little. This is a time to confess whatever we have had buried deep inside, the regrets and the hurts, and the pain we never named.Ī ccepting hardships as the pathway to peace : It can be tricky to be in the moment at times when we have worries about the future attacking us, ungrieved traumafrom the past, and the ugly twin foes of guilt and regret still haunting us. Living one day at a time enjoying one moment at a time. I pray this prayer, asking God for the wisdom to know the difference because although I cannot control my mitochondria or my genetics, I can control what will build up my body and what will tear it down. As much as I’ve wanted to change my illness, and although I’ve improved from where I was, haven’t been able to untether it from me completely, even with fervent prayer, a healthy but excruciatingly restrictive diet, and meds and supplements. There’s simply things we can’t change, situations that God allowed that we are at least tied to for a season. This is the bulk of the prayer that most of us know. courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. It’s not words used to command Him, but instead, prayers for wisdom and intentionality. ![]() (They don’t this isn’t a mantra chant.) The power lies in the sheer fact that it’s prayer being lifted up to the Most High God. This prayer I’m about to go through could get a little self-helpy if and only if we rely on ourselves, fooling ourselves into thinking like Frank Costanza that the words themselves hold power. You can take a look at this short video clip if you want a good laugh.Īnd unless we’re intentional, we are going to go through a less dramatized version of Mr. We all laughed at the scenario because we knew he was helpless in his self-help endeavors. I can still picture Frank Costanza screaming “serenity now” at a bellowing octave, trying to achieve serenity as his eyes were bugging out. If you’re anything like me, you may think of the word serenity and immediately remember Frank Costanza, George Costanza’s zany father from Seinfeld going through a fictional self-help material based on the very real faddish trend of DIY self-help psychology in the 90’s.
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