This is a lovely classical playlist that I stumbled across on a friend's Facebook page. It is wonderful for pretending that your life is a Jane Austen novel, and people and houses and grounds really are the way Austen portrays them.
I have been thinking a lot about worry this week, and why we worry so much. I have three assignments due tomorrow, two of which I haven't started. You can imagine that I was pretty stressed out. I, however, have a terrible way of dealing with stress. You see, most of the time I just stop handling it and give up completely. If I feel under pressure or like I can't deal with it, I walk away. Which essentially means that the only way I can productively handle stress or pressure is by convincing myself that I'm not under any.
Yeah. Not good.
Anyway, it was getting to the point earlier this week when I was losing a lot of sleep to worry. I finally had to stop myself in my tracks and remind myself that GOD is the one who's meant to be in control, not me, and realise that worrying about my own short comings was not going to help one bit. I needed to remind myself that I am not doing what I'm doing for my own gain. I'm doing what I'm doing for GOD's glory.
I know that in the end, everything is meaningless (Ecclesiastes!), but I also know that I should work at everything with all of my heart, soul and mind as though I am working for the Lord (Colossians 3:23). Therefore, I have to keep on reminding myself that hey, even though this world will perish, I should still work at everything with all my heart, soul and mind - it's like working to save someone's life even though you know that eventually they will die anyway.
That may sound depressing, but to me it's the most glorious thing of all, that although this world will pass away, there is a new one to come, and just the fact that we can be saved despite all of our many, many flaws and then transformed for that world amazes me every day.
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