Ember G Writes

Hi again how has your week been? What is the weather like? Let me know!

I started working again this week, I came back to some not great news involving the council & my department. It’s all very confusing so I won’t go into detail.

When I got home from work on my first day back, I was ridiculously tired! It felt like it was a really long day.

In hindsight, I was probably very overstimulated & worrying about this that & the third!

Usually my brain chooses when I am in bed-getting ready to go to sleep, to start worrying. But last night (when I write this) my brain chose a different route.

I was thinking about time.

Not in the hours & minutes kind of way, but more so the “There is a time for everything. A period, a season, a pace.” Kind of way.

I don’t really know if this makes sense to anyone but me?

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says “There is a time for everything.” It has been my favorite Bible verse for a good few years now, anytime I have felt overwhelmed or anxious I remind myself of it.

I worry a lot about what is to come in the future. Even now, I am worrying about my finances, how I am getting to work Monday & my family.

My therapist always says “Listen chick. Is it going to help things, by worrying?”

It may not help you but it works for me, a chronic over-thinker!

It seems to silence my brain, shutting that little voice in the back of my mind. It puts my worries into perspective.

There is no point me worrying about everything.

Life, is not my responsibility or in my control. I need to remember who is in control. Why worry when I have God?

HE is in control of my friendships. HE in control of my relationships. HE is the one in control.

Now I am by no means saying that God controls my very being & everything I do!

God gives us free will. I have that freedom, to make choices. To make friendships. To have relationships. To have a certain type of job etc.

But those things that overwhelm us?

God is in control.

He certainly has, “Plans to prosper us and not to harm us” – Jeremiah 29:11-13.

Will you choose to believe it? Will you relinquish all control? Giving it to a God who can take those worries & carry them much better than we do?