When the penny dropped.

As I was doing some housework the other day, I started to speak to God about something that had been bothering me for sometime and making me anxious. Though I had made countless prayers to be free from what was weighing me down, it seemed to still have a hold of me. Before I could even finish the first sentence “just stop it, stop entertaining the idea, stop giving ears to these thoughts” came to mind. Straight away I knew it was God answering my prayer before I even finished speaking. I saw that I had been feeding the ridiculas thoughts every time they came to my mind. I was the one allowing myself to be anxious and frustrated.

Many times we pray to God for Him to free us from insecurities or complexes we may have, the 'love' for an ex-boyfriend that does not seem to go away, disappointments and many other things, and He does. When we ask Him to free us, He does exactly what we asked for. However, when the negative thought or the remembrance of that particular thing comes back instead of rejecting it and believing that it no longer part of us, we dwell on it. We are the ones that bring back to life what God already took away from us and what we had already determined was history.

We have the power to put to an end many things and after that day, when I decided to change my mindset, I have noticed that what bothered me for so long does not even bother me anymore. In fact I laugh as I write this because it was something so silly that I made “big”.

Categories: change, decision, emotions, the past