Do you know the song Old Church Choir by Zach Williams? I hear this song all the time and I love it. For about two days now there is one line from that song that has been stuck in my head: There ain't nothing gonna steal my joy. No there ain't nothing gonna steal my joy. I have realized that God is trying to tell me something. God is trying to show me how often and how many different people I let steal my joy all the time. The wonderful joy that I feel when singing about Him alone in my car. The joy that I feel because of the wonderful children He blessed me with. So many times a day I let people steal my joy. Between some of life circumstances that come up and some of the students that I teach I let them steal the joy from my heart. I let this profession, where I go in all day just trying to do what I can to put a band aid on a system that is broken, beat me down. I let these students taking out their other issues on me take away pieces of me. Sometimes I let all the burdens that come with having two little ones, working full time, and being married to a football coach steal away little pieces of my joy. Sometimes my heart feels so heavy because I have given up so many pieces that I don't have any left. I know that the big answer to this is that I just have to rely on God and He will project the joy in my life and exude it out of my heart. I know that I need to trust and rely. That always seems to be the big answer. The problem with that is that I don't know that next right step to take. I don't know what it is that I need to be doing in order to be able to truly trust and let go.
I have gone my whole life thinking that I needed to be self sufficient and that they only person I could truly rely on was myself. Now I am slowly learning that I cannot rely on me. That I can't do it. God always wanted me to know that I can't do it. How do I overcome years of conditioning telling me that I'm the only one? What is the one next step? I know what the problem is, but where do I go from here and how do I start to fix it? Maybe one day I will figure it out.
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