Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Sources of Irritation

What do you do when someone or something gets under your skin? Are you able to let it go, forgive, and get on with your life? Or do you stew about it until it affects your entire life?

Here's what I do: I envision helium-filled baloons!

I release these "helium-filled baloons" into the sky with the name of the offending person or the situation on it. I simply let them go heavenward.

I watch them lift into the sky and then vanish, and I imagine that my source of irritation has vanished with them.

This is a letting-go-and-letting-God process. It's not easy, but it is practical.

Spurgeon wrote, "The tender heart of Jesus waits to hear your griefs, so tell Him now."

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