Feeling out of sorts, Bunky? Feeling down, less than, agitated, irritated, peeved and put upon?
Do something about something. There. That is the miracle-working words given me by an old, snaggle-toothed, reformed reprobate years ago. The rest of his words are the gold: That's the sure-fire way out of self, and self is your only problem. I paid him no mind at the time, but I never forgot.
It was some years later before I experienced the truth of his words. Stuck in the mire of my own making, i.e., my life at the time. I felt paralyzed. I did not know, and I did not know what I did not know. So I thought about it, that which I did not know.
Then my personal light bulb flashed over my head: Mood follows action. I realized that until we do something about something, we are stuck in our own head chasing our own thoughts...kinda like being on a mental hamster-wheel without a prayer.
Blinding flash of the obvious: We must risk being wrong. We do nothing because we do not know for certain sure what to do. The quiet word is the too-seldom used, when (not if) wrong, promptly admit it.
Then do something else. Best run our intention by God and a friend or mentor, then just do it. The Oh rats! truth is...we can run it by God, by our mentor, use our best thinking, and it still be wrong.
We will know that we're growing spiritually when we realize that's us! On the right track going in the right direction. Out of self.
Thank you.
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