Living Life for Christ Alone

Can I be honest with you? If yes, read on. ;)  I am naturally one who gets very lost in the moment, so when moment after moment is overwhelming, it is no wonder that I am not only overwhelmed, but I go into "this-will-go-on-forever-and-I-must-live-to-survive-it" mode.  And the last couple of weeks have given me plenty of moments like that.  Moments where I feel like I'm being crushed under pressure that is too great for me to carry.  Moments where the decisions I have to make as a mom pile up so high in my brain that I can't even think straight enough to make them. If I stay too long here, I find myself becoming cynical. Life is not even meant to be fun, is it? (Spoiler: that is not true!) I woke up this morning feeling overwhelmed before the day began. I was stressed out and I hadn't even got out of bed. How can one possibly even begin to do a day right like that?  I sat at the breakfast table drinking my coffee, trying to gather myself for the day. I just want...

 "We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely on God, who raises the dead." (2 Corinthians 1:8b-9) The saying that God will never give us more than we can endure is simply not true.  At times, we get to this place of complete overwhelm beyond what we can endure.  Why? Why would God allow that to happen to His children? Why would God make life -and even survival- impossible for us?  It's quite simple, really.  Overwhelm is when all the temporary fixes we depend on stop working. Overwhelm is when the truth of those temporary fixes sinks in; they are not really fixes at all. Overwhelm is when we can begin to realize we were made to depend on the unseen, eternal God. It is when we are forced to make a choice in response to our own instinct to survive as to who or what we will depend on. It is when we are g...

I just made up a new word and kinda like it. :) Unoverwhelmable: incapable of being overwhelmed . Of course, this word doesn't describe any thing in my life. Everything is capable of being overwhelmed. My computer, for instance, could easily be overwhelmed by a virus. My house could easily be overwhelmed by decay. My bank account could easily be overwhelmed with emptiness. Nope. Not talking about things. Nor am I talking about the people I surround myself with. They easily get overwhelmed by life and the things that are in it.