**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**
Something
I love gets taken away and I get MAD! I cannot find what I am looking for and I
get FRUSTRATED. Something does not happen on my timeline and I RAGE.
So many strong, negative responses come when my priorities are misaligned and
often they cause pain to another.
Ignatius of Loyola calls these “disordered attachments”. Attachments that are out of order. These can
be good things, but there are disordered, not in the right order of priority.
(aka “idols”)
I would invite you to pray today. Ask God what your disordered attachments are.
Pay attention to any great negative emotional swings. What is your heart
attached to?
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
Showing posts with label frustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frustration. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Spilled Milk
**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**
It’s not that the milk has spilled it is that it has spilled for the millionth time.
I get so frustrated cleaning up milk. I am convinced that our carpet is dirty from two main sources – dirt from our dog and spilled milk. In all the brilliance in the world you would think someone could invent a straw sippy cup that did not leak!
Again and again and again. Spilled milk.
I do not know what the spilled milk is in your life today but my prayer for myself and my prayer for you is for the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to help us to clean up the spilled milk yet again. That we would go to God with whatever repeated frustrated and ask for His help because left to ourselves and our frustration it’s not going to be pretty.
Prayer for supernatural power, however it is needed today.
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
It’s not that the milk has spilled it is that it has spilled for the millionth time.
I get so frustrated cleaning up milk. I am convinced that our carpet is dirty from two main sources – dirt from our dog and spilled milk. In all the brilliance in the world you would think someone could invent a straw sippy cup that did not leak!
Again and again and again. Spilled milk.
I do not know what the spilled milk is in your life today but my prayer for myself and my prayer for you is for the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to help us to clean up the spilled milk yet again. That we would go to God with whatever repeated frustrated and ask for His help because left to ourselves and our frustration it’s not going to be pretty.
Prayer for supernatural power, however it is needed today.
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Expectations
**Sit quietly, eyes closed in silence for one minute before reading.**
Expectations. We all have them. Some realistic and others not very. I find myself taking my expectations into my relationship with God and at times my frustration with Him is based on whether He has met a desire or request in the way I expected Him to. Sometimes I base whether He cares or not on whether He responds like I expect Him to. (Not a good idea, I know.)
So as I was exploring these things I found myself reminded that God often (maybe always) does not show up how or where I expect him to. And sometimes I am frustrated with him because he has not shown up where I expected. And…he is showing up but I just can’t see him because I am so focused on him showing up a certain way (much like many during Jesus’ time on earth).
So I found myself asking God to be able to see him wherever and however and not necessarily in the expected pictures I had painted. Very strongly he spoke to my heart saying, “I’m in your kids”. This was followed by a time of rich (and good) weeping. Even now as I write this I find myself tearing up. God is showing up through my children. Not the picture(s) I had but it is his picture and it is rich and beautiful and I am grateful.
How has God richly surprised you by not meeting an expectation?
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
Expectations. We all have them. Some realistic and others not very. I find myself taking my expectations into my relationship with God and at times my frustration with Him is based on whether He has met a desire or request in the way I expected Him to. Sometimes I base whether He cares or not on whether He responds like I expect Him to. (Not a good idea, I know.)
So as I was exploring these things I found myself reminded that God often (maybe always) does not show up how or where I expect him to. And sometimes I am frustrated with him because he has not shown up where I expected. And…he is showing up but I just can’t see him because I am so focused on him showing up a certain way (much like many during Jesus’ time on earth).
So I found myself asking God to be able to see him wherever and however and not necessarily in the expected pictures I had painted. Very strongly he spoke to my heart saying, “I’m in your kids”. This was followed by a time of rich (and good) weeping. Even now as I write this I find myself tearing up. God is showing up through my children. Not the picture(s) I had but it is his picture and it is rich and beautiful and I am grateful.
How has God richly surprised you by not meeting an expectation?
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
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