I love those blissfully happy moments. The ones where you just become unabashedly joyful at the littlest things. Those things like...
Listening to great music in the summer... Sitting in an airport before the beginning of a vacation... Getting a hard test back with a big "A" written on top... Jam sessions with my friends on the way to Six Flags... Laughing so hard at something funny your stomach hurts after... These moments, when they come you are just positively gleeful at just being in that moment. Last semester, I felt stressed way more than usual (looking at you A.P. courses). I think we all kind of hit these stretches of overwhelming busyness. But, this semestero, I feel so much more content. Content with the small things. I have always struggled a little with wanting more--never really being content with what I have. I call it my Younger Sibling Complex. I have an older brother, and as every younger sibling knows, all we want to do is be as old as them, have what they have, be just like them. I wanted to be in college right after my brother left. I didn't want to be in high school. I really struggled with the adaptation of my brother leaving and me becoming more alone. I had to figure out what I was going to do because I couldn't have him as a day-to-day model anymore. I had to learn to make my own choices. Then, I realized that while I was getting stressed and more discontented, I was retracting from God, making me more stressed, more discontent. It was a really unhealthy cycle of me trying to fix my own problems. I finally figured out that I have to make an effort to become content before it comes naturally. It's the difference between joy and happiness. Happiness is an emotion, but joy is a choice. I have become joyful with where I am now--not with where I will be in the future. Without God, the small joyful moments will become fewer and far between because we fail to see the world for what it is: God's beautiful creation. Those happy moments won't just happen more frequently when you get closer with God. It is a result of a heart change that can take some effort to do. Being more content with your life means being more content with the blessings God has gifted you. God can help you adopt this mindset and, more importantly, he wants you to change. Being content can be hard, but being content can make being joyful easier, leading to those pure, gleeful moments. Be joyful, Sydney
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