When I was just a baby blogger, I would write short little posts to myself.
Things that I wished I had learned sooner in life. Things that I thought could help my friends, asking me questions.
I got away from that, but it was something I thoroughly enjoyed. I just wrote for the heck of it. I didn’t worry about SEO, marketing, traffic, pictures, and so on…I just wrote. They might have been crummy posts, but they were lessons from my heart. They helped people…
TODAY, I’m going to share with you such a post…I hope you like it, but even if you hate it, I can honestly say, I’m being true to myself. 🙂 And that’s all that really matters in this world.
Women just being free enough to be ourselves. 🙂
With that…here goes… 🙂
As we go through life, on this journey, we talk to friends, family, acquaintances about our life and they tell us what they think.
Sometimes we ask them their opinions, sometimes we don’t, but they always mean well.
They care about us, they don’t want to see us get hurt, so they give us their opinions on situations and circumstances.
And over time, we, as great thinkers, detectives even, our brains work differently than others. We store up all those thoughts over time…all the opinions, all the words of others, because it’s simply how our brains work. We are piecing things together in our minds, like a puzzle.
Each time we get new information, we store it up, set it aside, save it. Another puzzle piece to figure things out.
But what happens when you have too many puzzle pieces stated by too many people? People who care, yes, but people who are wrong.
NO ONE knows the situation like you do. No one can POSSIBLY know what you know. Only you know. And you KNOW the right answer. You know exactly what to do. But all these voices say something different, they say you’re a loser, that you can’t do it, that you’re not strong enough or confident enough…and you believe ’em.
When that happens, it’s time for a trip. It’s time to get away…from EVERYTHING. Maybe you physically leave and go on vacation to clear your head. Maybe you simply take a weekend off and go in your room, and shut out everything, and pray.
Because the truth is, that you CANNOT do what GOD wants you to do, while you’re still listening to all the other puzzle pieces. Until you clear out all those pieces from your mind, you can’t please God, because you won’t obey Him…you’ll be too busy listening to to wrong pieces, instead of the One that made you.
Lesson: Get alone. Get completely alone. Often. As much as you possibly can. Get all the voices out of your head and focus on only one voice…God’s. While it’s great to seek Biblical council…there’s only one voice that you MUST obey, especially when those voices are in opposition to each other.