Flat...
This week has been a pretty weird week... highs and lows, points of being overjoyed and points of being flat. Hae had work troubles, have had some serious youth group troubles... on the opposite side of things - I have an awesome small group, whom I am thoroughly looking forward to looking at Romans with this semester. I also had a really fun night on Thursday, playing drums with Bron's church band for an upcoming music service.
Have really been thinking about some wise words that Katay gave about us being a society that looks for ups and upper ups... and can see that alot in myself. I do look for the upper-up - and I also tend to rollercoaster a bit emotionally (as if not obvious :) ). The question I pose is... well how should I be changing the way I view the lows that appear?
most of you were at equip... if you weren't (heathen), that's ok. But how do you reckon we should view lows... and how do you guys deal with them - just in how you do things?
well thats D & M thought of the night... ciao
current song: Mest - "What's the Dilio"
Have really been thinking about some wise words that Katay gave about us being a society that looks for ups and upper ups... and can see that alot in myself. I do look for the upper-up - and I also tend to rollercoaster a bit emotionally (as if not obvious :) ). The question I pose is... well how should I be changing the way I view the lows that appear?
most of you were at equip... if you weren't (heathen), that's ok. But how do you reckon we should view lows... and how do you guys deal with them - just in how you do things?
well thats D & M thought of the night... ciao
current song: Mest - "What's the Dilio"
posted by Mick at 6:19 PM
2 Comments:
I think the key may lie not in how you view the lows, but in how you view the highs. Every good thing is a gift from God, a huge blessing given out of love. Don't take them for granted - in fact, be all the more thankful for them.
When you've got that sorted, remember that God put us here to work the earth, which I think is by definition what we would call a mundane task - although less on the boring side and more on the repetitive side. Life goes on for quite a while, and our tasks don't really change all that much. This isn't bad - it's part of the world God said was good. The difficulty of it is probably a product of the fall, but we glorify God by sticking out the mundane things in patience, even as we groan inwardly for the redemption of the world that is so hard to live in.
Lower the bar, that's what I'd say.
Go small group :o)
I'm not sure it a matter of lowering the bar. I take joy in a simple conversation. I take joy in the presence of a friend, a joke, or a smile.
However I can find myself feeling flat very quickly... particularly when I allow myself to stop. When I stop I deflate pretty quickly... or when something I care about is in jeopardy (for example - I need to rethink something important)... i get to feeling flat very quickly.
I kinda really just wish I was more emotionally stable at times. I love the rollercoaster high, and everyone seems to thoroughly enjoy a bouncy mick :). the low however sucks the air right out of you
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