"When faced with life's difficulties, burying your head in the sand only gives what threatens you an easier and quicker path to your destruction. Ignoring the problem won't make it go away; it only allows the problem to run amuck."
If you have not heard Le'Andria Johnson's song called "Jesus", you must go to iTunes right now and download it. Everyone must have this song. It is the best song I've heard in a very long time! Listen to the lyrics...remember the words "Girl Interrupted". That's the part she sings that may not be clearly understood by the listener if you don't know what she's talking about. The artist is referring to a movie title about some young girls in a psych ward who were going through things that no one else really understood during those times. That's the way most people are living today. There is no such thing as "normal". Everyone is going through something that has the potential to drive them crazy, and most people have nowhere to turn. When there is nowhere to turn, life (mental growth) stops at this point and won't pick up again until there is resolution. This is called interrupted, and refers to your emotional/mental/spiritual well being. When you're feeling interrupted or when your life has been interrupted, where do you go? What do you do? Does your refuge work for you? If not, you can't keep doing the same things that don't work over and over again and expect life to get better for you. The true definition of "stupidity" is "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome". Don't be stupid. You have to try something else, but first you must be completely honest with yourself about whether or not what you normally do makes your situation better or worse. If you turn to something that gives you viable solutions or answers to your problems, stick with that because it works for you. If not, you need to do something different. Otherwise, your life's situations will only get worse, and life in this day and time can be hard enough without you doing careless things to make it worse. If getting drunk doesn't take the problem away once the high is over, it's not working for you. Do yourself a favor. Stop going to the bottle. If shopping only leaves you in more debt without the money to pay monthly bills, stop spending senselessly. It isn't working for you. If picking a fight with your mate only makes you feel like crap afterward, try talking to that person about how you're feeling instead of taking what you're feeling out on him/her. If beating your children/pets leaves them feeling like crap and with bumps and bruises, it's not helping you, or anyone else for that matter. If shoplifting without getting caught only causes you to steal more, stop stealing. If eating fatty foods like ice cream, cheeseburgers, chocolate, cupcakes, cookies, etc., only makes you wish you hadn't grown out of your clothes or out of your figure, stress eating isn't working for you. If biting your nails leaves your fingers bald and bleeding, you might want to try something else. You get the picture...
To "call on Jesus" doesn't mean to go to church and say a couple of "amens" and "hallelujahs". It will do you no good if you don't know why you're doing it. Calling on Jesus means to think of the integral thing to do in your situation. To "talk to God about it" means to think it through with intelligence, integrity and truth. Don't try to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. It can't be done. Don't try to take shortcuts or deny that you have a problem that needs to be addressed. And for God's sakes, don't cover up one problem by creating another one. Do the math on that one. One plus one will equal two every single time. If you use one problem to deal with another one, you will then have two. More problems never equate to less, and if you use this method of problem solving, you will end up "interrupted". You're "interrupted" because instead of solving the problem you faced, you disrupted your psyche's regular flow of functioning when you turned away from what needed to be taken care of and interrupted it with something else that was, not only unnecessary, but irrelevant. Now your mind has to take the time to figure out or deal with something it really wasn't prepared to deal with. Don't interrupt the psyche's normal flow--and trust and believe that having to figure out or find solutions to life's problems and struggles is normal. What isn't normal is when you thoughtlessly jerk your mind into dealing with something that it really shouldn't have to take on.
When you have a problem, big or small, look into what you can do to lessen it. Don't make it bigger unless...
...you want to be interrupted. Warning: interruption is like shopping on credit; it feels good getting into debt, but it's nearly impossible to get out of it.
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