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Worry is a theme in my daily life. If any given time you asked me what I was worried about, I would have an answer. This summer on my way to a new job I was so worried and scared that I made myself sick. Yet, it's common for me - before exams, first impressions, public speaking - I waste minutes of life in futile fear.
But, this commute was different. I realized I had wasted the entire morning not listening to the amazing playlist I had made, but instead freaking out over worst case scenarios and I didn't even know what was causing the fear. It was an inefficient way to spend the present, these moments that none of us will get back.
And then I remembered that Bible verse we always hear at June weddings:
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear" 1 Jn 4:18
The fear is there because I let it in.
I allow this silly fear/worry/anxiety to play a theme
But, what if every time we felt the needless anxiety creep in, in the form of knots in our shoulders, we just focused on how to love better?
I think that a lot of our choices fall somewhere on a spectrum anchored by Love at one end and Fear at the other. I'm a pendulum that swings back and forth between the two.
Although striving for love, I usually fall somewhere...in between.
Song for the day: If It Kills Me by Jason Mraz
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