Hitting turbulence and getting bruised
Presented with a
situation, a study of your reaction may determine so many things and the
eventual outcomes. What the five senses perceive will suggest our grounded and
lifelong taught appreciation of our reality.
Yet, that reality
might not be the truth, because everything we need to know and understand about
the situation may not have been fully reconciled. We battle, in an instant with
current information that sends our thoughts racing haywire, like hitting severe
turbulence without being strapped in your seat.
How can we have our
seat belts of life fastened at all times so that regardless of the turbulences
we encounter in our varied journeys, we are unperturbed and unbothered, but
steadfast and sure that a momentary or extended unsettling experience will not
be definitive of our report?
Reining in turbulent
thoughts
It is quite a saving
grace that we are the only witnesses to the things that go on in our heads. The
questions, even the equations, along with the evaluations, and absurd calculations could render you impotent. [BibleHub: Matthew 6:31]
We can choose to be
stricken with fear and submit to the turmoil that surrounds us in helplessness
and torment or be strengthened with faith that what we perceive is temporal
because we are grounded by God's own perspective of the situation revealed to
us. [BibleHub: 1 John 4:18, 2 Corinthians 4:18]
We are too used to
close shaves, daring escapes, and heaving that sigh of relief, as objects of
fate and occasional good fortune rather than as believing expositors of calling
our world into being. [BibleHub: Ephesians 2:12, Hebrews 11:3]
I sometimes wonder if I have ever truly believed for the things I have desired. My instant reaction, like I had before I wrote this blog and later realised was a phantom because the process of reconciliation of accounts had not been completed would suggest otherwise. [BibleHub: Mark 11:24]
From the turbulent to
the triumphant
Learning to
recalibrate my frame of reference through the renewing of my mind is sometimes
the hardest personal pursuit as it involves unlearning practice, tradition,
credo, culture, habit, and things once held true. It is a process of
transformation that leads to a place of peace in the spirit, rest in the mind,
and health in the body. [BibleHub: Romans 12:2]
I intend to win at this and win triumphantly, it is a matter of life and death, let God be true and
every man, no matter the news, verdict, or opinions they bring, be a liar. [BibleHub:
2 Corinthians 2:14, Romans 3:4]
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