It’s currently 27 degrees in Dallas. According to the Weather Channel it feels like it’s 16 degrees. According this summer lovin’ gal, it feels like its -16 degrees!!! For real, one of the reasons I moved to Texas was for the warmer winters. You’re disappointing me Tejas! I woke up this morning, determined to work out so I got dressed and headed to the gym. On the way in, I almost lost my fingers due to frostbite (dramatic much?) and I thought to myself, I am ready for the spring! Seriously, enough with this winter stuff. I know that it is January but let’s get to the warmth, sunshine and blooming flowers!
Now, being the philosophical person that I am, I began to ‘break down’ this break down. You see, at the root of my dramatic interlude was a bit of discontentment. It may seem minor but it got me thinking. Then, I sat down to write out my Take Me Back post and thought to myself, ‘what do I want to go back to?’ Essentially, where would I rather be than where I am today. Now, don’t get me wrong, my TMBT posts are some of my favorite and I don’t plan on changing them! However, I realized that they reveal a little bit of my nature to be discontent with the here and now. To wish for ‘warmer temps.’ This is a constant struggle in my business, always wanting to be doing better or wishing for a simpler version of my business. It reveals itself in life, always comparing my life to others and to the plan that I had in mind for myself. It is crippling because it prevents us from enjoying the present…the God-ordained present that has so much to offer. If we are constantly looking behind or forward, we will lose the opportunity to enjoy today, which in all reality is all that we CAN enjoy. How I gathered this from a frigid morning in January? Well, if you followed the blog at all, you probably know by know that I can easily get lost in thought and I love a good metaphor. I’m weird…it’s just true. However, I hope this will encourage you today to stop wishing for ‘warmer temps’ and maybe just settle in to the here and now. If God has placed you there, then there is so much to gain from it…even if your ‘fingers fall off.’
“Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”- Philippians 4:11-13
So, In the name of contentment and your fingers falling off,
I Say, Leave Me Here!
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