"No matter what the problems are that we're trying to cope with, a major source of frustration is trying to encompass too much at once. We forget that we need to deal with only one day at a time, and try to crowd too much into the waking hours of that day."
-One Day at a Time (Alanon), Jan. 19 Devotion
When I was in college, I was extremely busy. I worked 50-60 hours a week on top of going to college full time. I made sure to sleep at least 7 hours a night, so I crammed everything into my waking hours. If I wasn't sleeping, I was either at work, in class or doing homework. Forget time with friends. Who has time for that?
If I could go back, I would have done it differently. I even barely had time to go to church and often-times skipped out to go to work. It's hard to think that I did that, but I was even too busy for church.
And that did a lot of damage to my relationship with God in college... I fell further and further away from Him.
In graduate school, things were different. I worked but it was part of my school and I only worked 40 hour weeks and got paid more. I had time to go to church and even hang out with friends. My relationship with God grew as well as my relationships with others.
The one thing I have learned throughout all of this is that I needed to slow down and take it one day at a time, especially in my healing journey. In order to recover, I've had to take it slow and easy, not trying to overachieve on everything.
Slow and steady...
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