I had an epiphany today, I always start my day with music or a podcast (if you haven’t listened to Jocko, do it now!).
Today I decided to switch it up and listen to praise music and oh my goodness it makes such a difference on your outlook (I already knew this, but clearly I forgot🤷♀️).
I’ll be honest, I’ve been living in fear. I mean, haven’t we all? But for someone with an autoimmune disease or someone close to them it’s a very scary time! And I’ve been letting that consume me and in turn it takes a toll on my health (stress/anxiety is a trigger for Crohns flares, even though I’m already in one, it makes it worse).
Well like I said, I had an epiphany...I have lived through a life and death situation and I wasn’t scared then, ok I was a little...but nothing like now and at that time I truly was facing death, And in the midst of fear And the unknown I had faith. Not just paranoid about getting sick, And I realized, I’m not trusting God, which honestly I generally pride myself on but somewhere through all of this, that flew out the window and I was pretty disappointed in myself.
Don’t get me wrong. I firmly believe this is something to be taken very seriously and if we all do our part, it will be over before we know it. But like I was saying, I wasn’t putting my trust in God like I should! So I said a prayer, truly listened to the words of the praise music I was listening to and by the time I was out of the shower I just felt like I had a weight lifted off my shoulders.
I’m still going to be careful obviously, we all need to be but I encourage you to set your fears aside and put your trust in God and I assure you, it will do a world of good for your mental health.
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