How many times are we presented with a situation or circumstances that fill us with questions and uncertainty? Worrying how something will work out.
We dissect the details, replay things over in our heads, talk them out trying to cover every possible outcome, attempting to figure it out for ourselves and be ready for the worst. We feel like we are doing something productive by spending so much time stressing over what we realistically, have no control over. So why?
We mentally try to prepare ourselves for situations we were never meant to have a say in. We lose trust and faith in the process and try to take charge and responsibility for an outcome that is going to be what it will be. No matter how we try to interfere.
So why do we put ourselves through it once, let alone twice? We should only worry when it’s time to and even in that moment we should trust in the process. Even when things don’t make sense or when they don’t turn out how we hoped and prayed. We shouldn’t worry at all. We should have faith that everything happens the way it’s meant to and somethings, just aren’t meant to be.
The answer to “why” we do this, is quite simple. We create expectations in our minds. We are drawn in by certain details of things that make us desire them. We get ahead of ourselves picturing how wonderful something could be. Then we paint the picture of how WE want things to turn out. What WE want things to be. Most times, based on very little knowledge. Then, when there is an “unknown” or waiting period for how something will actually turn out or if it will, we try to soften the blow of the letdown that might come. Almost as if we know, what we are so badly hoping for, might not be best for us. Most of us know and are well aware, we don’t have the final say in how things pan out but this doesn’t make us any less human.
Our faith in God and His plans for our lives is what we have to turn to in these moments. While somethings might seem appealing and like great opportunities, who knows where those paths might lead us in the future. Who knows what problems they could create or the type of person they could turn us into. They might be great to start but perhaps take us in a direction we simply aren’t meant to go.
Have faith in God and your journey and if you must worry, only worry once.
-MC
Marilyn Colwell 