Most people have some sort of routine throughout their day. For the most part my routine is consistent. I wake up, I'm usually the first to shower, shave, get dressed, take Carter to sitter's (some days Cassie does this), get to work, have lunch at some point, leave work and pick Carter up if I am the nearest one to him, then our evenings can vary day to day but I try to be in bed by 11:00 and then we start over. We can get comfortable with our routines or our plans for life. Then IT happens!! IT can be many things. Loss of job, loss of loved one, car breaks down, we get injured, we get sick, we get dumped, or any other event that brings us to a screeching halt. Next there is usually a reaction. This reaction can vary depending on the situation. There could be disappointment, pain, anger, terror, humor, or even denial. We then might try to analyze what just happened, try to fix what might be broken, heal what is hurt, tame the fear that has risen, we might stand and fight or we might just run away. Then comes the endless cycles of what if?
Why do we do this to ourselves? We hear the comments of friends or family to "give it to God" We shrug this statements off and for some crazy reason we think we can figure it out. We think we can fix IT. Now all the while we might be saying that we are giving IT all to Him.... but we're not, we think about it constantly we struggle to come to grips with IT. Or sometimes we ignore IT and we think IT will fix itself. There can be many factors to why we hold onto IT. But I think that the main reason why we don't trust God with IT, is because we are afraid of his answer or his solution. His answer might be to get that job we don't want to take, stop loving that person that is wrong for us, learn to live with a new hanicap, be grateful for what we do have and stop longing for the things that we can't, or give up that habit that has us hosstage. In the recent days God has really been hammering me with how I have to renew my mind everyday. We never know what tomorrow will hold, so we need to wake up everyday and renew our mindsets. We are never going to be able to stop IT from happening but we can control how we respond to IT.
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be. Kent Nerburn
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