“Use your hurt and happiness. Don’t let them use you. If you don’t master your emotions, your emotions will master you.”
-Lecrae-
Jul27
Tag Archives: simplicity
Apr2
DAY 92
Sunset at CB Smith
My goal today? Keep it simple. Life does not always have to be filled with clamor and noise. Sometimes calm and quiet is the medicine required. Don’t always be in a rush to go somewhere or do something. Stop and look around. Sit down and enjoy the peace. Today I spent some time doing just that. I hope you find time to do the same. Why? Because it reminds you that there is more to your life than, going. It reminds you of who you are.
So what am I thankful for today? The sunset at CB Smith Park.
Feb15
DAY 46- How To Un-Traffic Jam Your Life
Today I realized something, AMAZING. In these 46 days I have learned to *UN-traffic jam* (yes I know it’s not a word, but it works) my life. Let me explain, prior to starting this venture of finding one thing to be thankful each day. I was the queen (okay, more like second in command) of finding things to complain about. This personality defect often left me feeling claustrophobic in my life, much like the way one feels in a traffic jam.
Traffic jam: where you are sitting in a metal box, with an engine that is supposedly powered by horses and yet, you are going nowhere…extra, extra SLOW.
This very apt description was my life. I was trapped on a road going nowhere at a speed of ZERO. I remember thinking, “I feel frustrated, irritated…STUCK.” One December 31st of last year, I had a conversation with God that went something like this: “Lord I can’t go through one more year like this. I can’t keep spinning my wheels only to end up in the same spot. I need a change. I need more than this.” Actually I had different forms of this same conversation with God through much of 2012. But on December 31st, I felt Him answer this… “stop looking at what you don’t have and be THANKFUL for what you do have”. My first response was to think, “well, what do I have?” In answering that question I discovered I had so much more than I couldimagine. What I have: health, a family that loves me. I have a good job, great co-workers, amazing friends and I have…GOD. My traffic jam was of my causing. I CHOSE to be stuck. How do you de-congest a traffic jam your life? THANKFULNESS. So what am I thankful for today? That even with traffic on the journey, I am still moving forward. Also thankful that traffic jams don’t last forever…traffic ALWAYS clears.
Jan24
DAY 24
I am learning Korean. It’s is such an interesting and oddly efficient language. In English, every sentence must contain a subject (noun) and a verb. In Korean, you just need a verb. The rule being that if everything else is implied, then it doesn’t need to be said. What a great rule! I am learning to live my life in this manner…simple. Why do we make everything so complicated? Where is the manual that says we need to make things more difficult than it needs to be in order to be living right?
If language, the means by which we communicate our life, can be simplified. Shouldn’t it stand to reason that the life being communicated can be simple as well? I am not saying that life is not hard. I am also not saying that we won’t struggle. However, the answer need not be more difficult that the problem being faced. So next time you’re faced with a situation that feels unsolvable…remember the Korean language and leave out what is unnecessary.
So what I am thankful for today? Thankful that has I am learning to find beauty, grace, and peace in simplicity.