Religion: LIFE IN SLOW MOTION

LIFE IN SLOW MOTION

Written by Laurel A. Aiyana

For most, life passes by at a rapid pace. Work, kid’s activities, and daily responsibilities keep people busy all day. For 20 years, I functioned on overload to get every thing accomplished on my agenda. Addicted to activity, I filled every waking hour with something – soccer games, bible study, endless household chores, working out at repparttar

gym, etc., etc., etc. Keeping unbalanced schedules for so long, finally took its toll when chronic illness left be bedridden for six months. While compulsive activity did not cause my health crisis, it certainly aggravated my condition. My life came to a screeching halt, and only went forward in slow motion.

While recuperating, refocusing priorities and establishing balance became important to me. Severe arthritis prevented me from doing more than a limited number of activities each day. Attacking one activity per day seemed to be my limit for what seemed like an long period of time. Grocery shopping, for example, can only be done on a day when I have no other tasks, and I must rest afterwards for a considerable amount of time. Frustration resulted. On better days, I attempt more. Additional down may be required after repparttar 126438 fact. Balance, balance, balance, became repparttar 126439 word of repparttar 126440 day, and a hard lesson learned.

We Have An Emotional Jesus

Written by Caleb Osborne

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"An Emotional Jesus..."

- by Caleb Osborne

Lately In my email newsletters (available for FREE at http://www.ChristThroughMe.com ) I've been talking about how Jesus has experienced everything that we will ever go through here on earth.

Yes, even in our most trying times we can be sure that our Lord has already triumphed in our particular situation. So we can be comfortable talking to him about our troubles.

This is important and a comforting thing to know. For it's comforting to know you can talk to someone who has been through your situation. More important than repparttar comforting feelings is that Jesus showed us repparttar 126437 way to deal with these emotions.

In repparttar 126438 last email Jesus got mad at people disgracing repparttar 126439 house of prayer, repparttar 126440 temple. So He did repparttar 126441 right thing and threw them out and was rightly justified in expressing His anger with them.

It's important for me to interject that anger in and of itself is not a sinful emotion, it's a natural one. It will occur, repparttar 126442 important thing is to be in control of repparttar 126443 emotion, let it out and recover. Remember that after Jesus stopped repparttar 126444 selling and misuse of repparttar 126445 temple grounds He taught them that what they were doing was wrong (Mark 11:17-18).

There is another emotion that I want to focus on in this article though. An emotion so powerful it can hurt worse and cripple more severely than physical pain. That emotion is Sorrow. Sorrow can come in many forms, from many places and can hurt tremendously. So much so that death can seem like a welcomed event..and an acceptable alternative to repparttar 126446 present circumstances.

Yes, tis true, Sorrow can be repparttar 126447 worst emotion. Just look at repparttar 126448 suicide rate in this Country (USA) and you'll see that there are a lot of people that suffer from great sorrow. I'd bet dollars to donuts that you can probably think of someone that you've personally known that has given in to sorrow and taken their life. Such a sad fact, but true (I know it's true for me).

Jesus has experienced horrible sorrow too! And He has showed us repparttar 126449 way to deal with it! The correct manner to deal with situations that are not turning out repparttar 126450 way we had hoped, and repparttar 126451 future seems so bleak.

Jesus taught us to TRUST. To trust in Father's perfect will and trust that He knows what's best for us even when we can't see it , even when it seems like repparttar 126452 hardest thing to do in repparttar 126453 world, Jesus taught us to trust and submit to repparttar 126454 will of Father.

On repparttar 126455 night that Jesus was to be betrayed He knew what had to happen, repparttar 126456 horrible suffering that was going to come. I like repparttar 126457 way repparttar 126458 NIV version translates what Jesus tells His disciples about his feelings, when He was going off to pray:

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