SITTING

Rest is an important element in life. A chance to relax and clear the mind of any concerns.

Unfortunately the mind doesn't always get purged of what distracts and concerns out. We can easily get sidetrack with the brain stuck in replay.

Now there are ways naturally, which are supposed to help with that problem. Anything that calms and aids in concentration is supposed to be an aid.

For myself, if I am upset about something that doesn't happen. I just have the emotions going crazy inside and can't stop them.

Which makes any ability to concentrate next to impossible. And that is not a position that leads to any nature of calm.

But then I do try to find some means of relaxing. This does get to be a challenge at times though.

And I can't speak for how others deal with this or even if it is a problem, but I can only speak from my own experience.

Basically the first thing I try to do in all the frustration of the moment, when the storm rages is to accept this is not some permanent event. It is a condition of the moment.

Then too I try to accept that I am human and that means I have emotions. The type that will mean I can't always be calm or at peace in life.

Too, somewhere as the rage subsides I come to a point of accepting that God is still there. That this moment of distraction and upheaval is not a punishment.

And at times this can be very tough. But somewhere through it all, I try to embrace that I can still trust God.

Doubt might dog me for a while, but I don't let it crush my spirit to the point I just give up completely. Which is what Satan would want.

And I try to look beyond that. To the point of truth. That I am human and a sinner and this is a time of grace.

I cherish when I can reach that plateau. A point of acceptance that lets me move past the crisis.

Scarred, but still rejoicing that it is over. Then to remember the places reached where one feels the sunlight of God's grace touch.
It warms and refreshes and for while you feel born again.