Sometimes the journey requires pain. Don’t run.

Have you ever had a day when you felt like your brain broke? Today my brain broke. I am surprised that I am even able to put a sentence together right now.  Before I left work today I looked at the schedule and tomorrow is WORSE. Ooo NOES!!!!! Surprisingly though with all the things going on in my life right now this moment of brain numbness is a welcome distraction. I am discovering God’s grace in a new light. This may sound odd, but this abundance of work has actually served to keep me more focus on God and less focused on my circumstances and situations. The truth of the matter has always been we can see the answers more clearly when we are not focused on the problem. I have no time to focus on my problem, an over abundance of patients and a shortage of staff has seen to that. On the plus side instead of myself I am focused on those around me that need my help. This morning a patient searched the entire office looking for me, just to say thank you. She thanked me for something I had said the week prior that left her with a feeling of hope. That “thank you” almost brought me to tears. It felt like a life jacket to the drowning me. At that moment after those words I realize it was God. His arms embracing me in the form of a human voice reminding me that He understands and He has a plan. Feel like you’re drowning too? Don’t focus on the problem, turn around and help another person who is drowning. You’ll find that the life vest will be big enough for both of you.

“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4).

So what’s my plan of attack? See those around me, and not just myself.