I was going to bow out of my blog today. I’ve been a little under the weather. I’m fine. It’s just that the thing we have all been trying to avoid for the past two and a half years finally caught up with me. Part of it was being in the wrong place at the wrong time — where ever and whenever that might have been, but upon reflection, I think part of it may have been lack of self care on my part.
Has that ever happened to you? Something happened as a result of what you did or did not do? I think this probably happens to us a million times a day but most times the consequences are inconsequential.
I’ve had plenty of time to reflect while on my back, or at least plenty of time for me, a whole three days. Those who know me know that if I’m down for three minutes I’m a spaz case, so you can just imagine my reflections…
One conclusion I’ve come to is that some things in life you just can’t control — like this illness. There’s no rhyme nor reason to it. But another conclusion I have drawn is that sometimes we do have control over some things in our life, we simply choose not to take control. For instance, how we take care of ourselves. You know, our bodies, our minds and most importantly, our Spirits.
I’m grateful for laying on my back, which hurts from laying on my back — you get that don’t you? You’re weird, you say. Laying on my back has given me time to assess life, mine specifically. It’s given me perspective on what is really important. I think we probably all do that self assessment when things aren’t going well and we’re looking for hope on the other side. You know — when I get off this couch, i’m gonna…work less, be less stressed, get my head straightened out, eat heathier, exercise more, take better care of myself, my family, clean my house more (well, maybe not that one). The list goes on and on though, right?
And truth be told, those are exactly the things I should be doing and will be doing, at least for the foreseeable future, before the world speed creeps in again and i’m back on the merry-go-round gripping the mane with legs flying behind until I land on the couch once more.
So, the point to all my brain fog ramblings is this — control what you can control. God has made us sensible, rational people – body, mind and Spirit. True, we can’t always control our bodies. I’m told only the aliens have control of our DNA (wink, wink). But we can control how we treat them. What’s going into the temple? Is the temple being strengthened?
What about our minds — the thing He gave us to think with, to reason with, to make sound judgments with? True, we can’t always control our minds either, but we can control a lot more than we think. What goes into our minds forms our reasoning and our judgments. Garbage in — garbage out.
What about our Spirits — here’s the one thing we have absolute control over. Not to sound like a New Ager or anything, but we do have complete control of our destinies. We have two choices — we get to pick. Maybe not necessarily how we arrive, but we absolutely have control of where we end up.
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
Philippians 3:20-21
Body, mind and Spirit. Control what you can control.
CONTROL
