You ever had one of ‘those’ days? I couldn’t get my engines going. Guilt was beginning to set in because I was staying in bed much later than what is ever a norm for me. But I do believe God stepped in at that moment as I browsed through my emails I came across a blog entry from Holly Gerth, one of my favorite bloggers, entitled, “Why It’s Okay for You to Do Small Things.”
In her post she says,”For years I struggled with rest and doing small things. If I took time to watch my favorite show, bake cookies, flip through a magazine I’d feel a twinge of guilt. I’d hear somewhere inside me, “Shouldn’t you be doing something more productive/meaningful/astounding?” On the good days, I’d swat those thoughts away like a fly and carry on. On the bad days, I’d get up and work myself into a frenzy trying to prove my worth.”
I decided in that moment that today wouldn’t be just ‘one of those days’ in a bad way but in a good way. I’ve been held up doing a lot of ‘things’, staying in that frenzy, feeling frantic and anxious about so many different aspects of what was going on in my life that the tension was so tight it felt as if I could break if bent any further.
No more. I settled back into bed and laid there for another hour just because I could. 😉
I treated the whole day like that…even though I have this looming, extremely stressful deadline for the IRS on my hands, I put it aside for the day. I wasn’t going to allow this to be ‘one of those days’.
Are you working yourself into a frenzy? Are you finding you are having more and more of ‘those’ days? Give yourself permission to put one of ‘those’ days on hold and make it a ‘good’ day.
Blessings
Shannon