Big Girl Panties
I was talking last week with WS and realized I just need to put my big-girl panties on and DEAL. And...fortunately or not, apparently that message is Approved By God, because I've gotten a lot of the same thing from the Lutheran Hour Daily Devotions, and the Meyer Minute, and from a conversation with CS last night.
He mentioned that sometimes, things happen sort of...because they have to happen that way. Whether people in general want to ascribe it to God, or "fate" or (hey, why not) Psychohistory, sometimes things just come together in a way that not only works out better than we'd thought they would, but in retrospect appear to have been rather inevitable, given what went before. And, of course, we both attribute that to God working in peoples' lives.
Which brings me to something WS asked me. "Can you be at peace with this job?" And I said, "No, actually I can't. I can't be at peace with it, and I can't be "okay" with it."
So, putting those together.
No, I'm still not 'at peace' with it. But I can accept it as an inevitable fact and deal with it without whining and getting all squishy about it. Not promising that I won't get depressed, because some of that is chemical, but I'm working at it. And I will and have accepted it because obviously this is God working in our lives, to set up a chain of events. Will we wind up moving? I still don't know. Maybe. If the job situation doesn't change, yes, which is why we're making plans to do so.
Am I happy about it? Obviously not. But I can accept it, and deal with it.
I'm not saying I won't continue to ask God if this is really what He wants, and asking for explanations. But....I'm gonna try to quit whining about it.
He mentioned that sometimes, things happen sort of...because they have to happen that way. Whether people in general want to ascribe it to God, or "fate" or (hey, why not) Psychohistory, sometimes things just come together in a way that not only works out better than we'd thought they would, but in retrospect appear to have been rather inevitable, given what went before. And, of course, we both attribute that to God working in peoples' lives.
Which brings me to something WS asked me. "Can you be at peace with this job?" And I said, "No, actually I can't. I can't be at peace with it, and I can't be "okay" with it."
So, putting those together.
No, I'm still not 'at peace' with it. But I can accept it as an inevitable fact and deal with it without whining and getting all squishy about it. Not promising that I won't get depressed, because some of that is chemical, but I'm working at it. And I will and have accepted it because obviously this is God working in our lives, to set up a chain of events. Will we wind up moving? I still don't know. Maybe. If the job situation doesn't change, yes, which is why we're making plans to do so.
Am I happy about it? Obviously not. But I can accept it, and deal with it.
I'm not saying I won't continue to ask God if this is really what He wants, and asking for explanations. But....I'm gonna try to quit whining about it.
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