Sometimes "secular" advice is exactly what I need. I had never heard the term "overthinker" before. I've heard "compulsive analyzer", but not "overthinker". That is what I am. I overthink things. It's more than analyzing -- I can't seem to tear my mind away from certain things and subjects.
Then I have weeks like this week and I just don't know what to do. Nothing has specifically happened to me, just people I care about. This leads me to realize that I am "stuck" because nothing exciting has happened to me in a very long time. I sometimes get to participate in the joy of others, but I'm in the background or on the sidelines. I'm not part of the game. This then leads to discontentment. I realize discontentment for what it is and tell myself to get over it. I dwell on "Christian" thoughts in order to try to get over it.
Weeks like this week exacerbate the mundaneness that seems to cover my life. The normal discontentment struggles I have are magnified 100 times and I get a headache before 8 a.m. (like this morning).
But then I read that article. I am given actual methods for "being still" in order to know Who is in charge, in order to remember that because I am His nothing is really mundane.
That's kinda cool.
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