Stop the Roller Coaster!

I'm sure you can tell by now that some of life's greatest challenges involve or result from the ups and downs of our emotions.  Think about roller coasters.  If you measured the length of a roller coaster track, you'd find that the distance it covers is far greater than the distance between where you get on and where you step off.  By the time the ride is over, you've spent a great deal of time speeding to great heights and swooping to deep lows.  On a roller coaster many people think that it's entertaining, but if we let our emotions do that in everyday life, I can assure you that it's exhausting.

In the world, we believe what we see, but in God's Kingdom we believe and then we see.  If we continue to let our emotions rule over us, there's no way we'll ever be the people we were meant to be.  It does no good to merely "wish" that you were not so emotional.  A choice must be made to change by completely renewing your mind.

Feelings change from day to day, hour to hour, sometimes even moment to moment.  Not only do they change, they lie.  For example, you may be in a crowd of people and feel everybody is talking about you, but that doesn't mean they are.  You may feel nobody understands you, but that doesn't mean they don't.  You may feel you are not well liked, unappreciated, or even mistreated, but that doesn't mean it's true.

If you want to be a mature, disciplined, well-balanced person, you must be determined not to walk according to what you feel.  If I'm having a "touchy day", I might feel people are not treating me very well, but in reality they are not treating me any differently than they always do--I'm just more emotionally sensitive that day and things affect me differently than normal.  (Joyce Meyers-Power Thoughts)

Begin to weave and God will provide the thread. (German Proverb)

She is preaching to the choir here on this subject.  The two words my husband would use to describe me would be "roller coaster" and I always describe him as "flat line"--but that's another post.  This is where most men have the upper hand.  They tend to see things in black & white--women have a kaleidoscope view of everything. Slight turn to the right or left and everything changes!