Worrying! I often, too often, find myself worrying. Worrying about the what-ifs, the maybes, and the God please don't let it be's. I am just a born worrier I think. When I was younger I would worry about my grades, worry if I was good enough, worry if my friends were mad at me, and when I would find out everything was ok (which 98 percent of the time it is) the release of tension and stress (and sometimes migraine headaches) was almost immediate. Now that I am a wife, a mom, and an adult I have tried my best to let go of these worries. I know they aren't good for my health (and who wants more wrinkles from stress? not me). A couple of quotes have stuck with me that I try to repeat when I am faced with a worry. "If you aren't going to stress about it in six months, don't stress about it now." Good one, right? The other one I most recently read definitely has a double edged sword, "Change is coming, prepare for it." We don't live forever, the walls at some point will come crashing down. At this point the what-if's usually creep in, what if this bad change is now? Then, I usually fall back on my faith, "God will never give you more than you can handle," "If He is for me than who can be against me?" Well, unfortunately, just watching the news can make you wonder just how much people can take. I know two of the closest people to me deal with it much better than I do, which is probably why I was put in both of their paths. My mother. I can call my mother crying,worrying, boo hoo-ing to her and she is calm as anything, puts it in prospective, says it will be fine, and 9 times out of 10 I will call her when the issue is resolved and it is just that, fine. My husband. "It is what it is." Great words that often brings things back into prospective for me.
How do you all deal with worry? I would love to know and the lack of headaches and wrinkles from your advice will be appreciated too!
Oh, I can sooo relate to this. I can create the most outrageous scenario in my head and actually rationalize that it might happen, when in fact it won't. I've found that it's mainly me worrying too much about what other people think, which is not an admirable trait and one I certainly need to work on. Thank God for our husbands, who really do keep us in line when it comes to stuff like this. If you figure out the secret to quit worrying about things, please fill me in!
ReplyDeletehaha, jackie, i was going to include a part that one of my best friends is my enabler and likes to worry along with me ;) love you!
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