Love’s Complicated
Life’s Complicated, Complicated
Well hello friends and fellow readers. I’m back and I’m so excited to share another nugget with you.
I was watching a movie the other day, and in the movie, “My Life As A Doormat,” the main character, Leah, was enrolled in an anger management program. When she was asked the question as to who she needed to confront, she mentioned her father, her fiancé, and her book agent. Now one of the other characters, Cinco, led her to a mirror and said that she needed to confront another person. That other person was herself. Leah took a look at, and inside herself, and she realized that in all of her misfortune she was the biggest contributor to her unhappiness.
As she looked in that mirror, I saw myself as one who is afraid to confront herself, and who has the desire to not hurt anyone else’s feelings. That made me somewhat like Leah, a contributor to my own unhappiness. Life is like that! It’s complicated and can only be what we make it. So, since love is a part of life, it too can be complicated and somewhat messy.
We can’t take the complicated out of life, but we can include the Lord in the complicated, and He will help us to navigate the course. We will become stronger, more self-assured and more at peace. If there’s anything that I have learned, it is that you have to meet others where they are, but more importantly accept where you are.
We often tell others not to make things so complicated. Right here, I thought, when we say complicated what do we really mean? Complicated (adj.) - Difficult to analyze, understand or explain as in a complicated issue. If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. –Confucius—
Isaiah 41:10 NASB tells us, “Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look anxiously about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
We tend to make things hard, because we sometimes have unreasonable expectations. We focus too much on what others may say or think about what we are doing. Is life really that hard or is it the fact that we tend to overthink everything. I didn’t say that it was easy, but I am saying be who you are. Put your best efforts into doing the best that you can and being thankful.
When things get too hard and you feel overwhelmed, just find yourself a scripture and repeat it to ground yourself. Say a little prayer and ask God to help you. Like Leah, I found out that life doesn’t have to be so complicated. That look in the mirror casts a reflection on who I can become. Like Leah, I must come to the realization that I am who I am made to be, and to let go of the anger and resentment, and love me.
This is what I leave with you for this time. I have a plaque over my door that says it all: “Live Well, Love More, Laugh Often”
We’ll talk again later, but until then you’re wished much love, joy, peace and blessings. ~Barbara G
“LIFE is very complicated. Don’t try to find ANSWERS Because when you find answers LIFE changes the QUESTIONS.”