LS038a - This is Not the End

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since I posted my last lifestyle update where I try to show you why there is always another way to face your problems. Even if I'm not perfect, or right all of the time.

This is Not the End

It has been my mission for the last few years to showcase God in my blog much more than I used to do where I was mainly focusing upon the Formula One races and British Superbikes.

Gosh!

Those were the days, I must say, where life seemed a lot simpler to me then, but I've had to grow up these past three years in ways I would not necessarily have wanted to, but felt called to regardless.

For my OG crew, you will remember that I used to post quite frequently about a crush I had upon someone I barely knew. You could say that was never actually resolved as I never got to tell her what an impact she'd had upon my life.

I've had to grow through the pain and through the heartbreak to the place where I am at now where I am vehemently often declaring to myself against CoVid, that this is not the end because God, my God, will finish what He started: -

Through the ministry of LIFE Church in Bradford, England, God has really been able to walk me through the confusion and uncertainty that is running rampant whilst the world has had to get to grips with the arrival of CoVid. It seems like it's an ever present figure, kind of like that neighbour you know about and see very often, but you don't particularly like to talk to yet can't stop talking about behind their back.

Giving Up Control

I have never lived through a pandemic before so I have been forced to grow up in some areas and to stretch in some other areas where I've often wanted control.

Control.

The one thing we all want, but can rarely find over our circumstances.

This is something that I have had to give up hope of ever having in my life because as soon as I think I have one area under control, there is a trial in another. As soon as I get to grips with the change and the challenge that one area is bringing, there is a shift.

I have had to learn to give up living in the black and white of everything being alright or not and learn to appreciate the grey areas of life.

The areas where things could be better.

The areas where I'm not satisfied.

The areas where what needs changing is beyond my ability.

The Power of a Declaration

If I am to declare victory over my life then I need to know what I can change and what I cannot. By establishing this first and foremost, I can begin to work on what I have the power to exercise free will over, and leave be what is not mine to change.

I cannot make other people change, nor do I want to.

I cannot make an employer give me a job.

I cannot expect myself to change if I am not willing to put in the time, efforts and energy to do so.

I separate between "efforts" and "energy" (something others would consider the same) because one I consider to be my skillset inputting into a problem area whereas the other is more to do with what I am getting from said area.

Think of it this way; the efforts are the petrol being put into my tank and the energy is the fuel gauge.

If I am committing my skills to a problem area and what is being wrought from it is not good then I am wasting my time. But if I am applying myself to a problem area and it slowly shifts from problem to solution, then I know that my energy levels will show that my skills are being improperly applied.

Final Thought

I thought this was enough on this issue but I'm going to have to take another pass at this issue to get out all that has been incubating since this whole thing started back in March time.

===TLP===