Day 9 - In a Drawer

We all have THAT drawer.

 The one that you tidy again and again, yet it always ends up filling up with a bunch of assorted stuff. 

There isn't always a good place for it anywhere else in the house. 

There is not enough of a certain item in a category to warrant its own space.

 Or perhaps you are trying to clean up fast and you shove it there so 'tidy' because you are to lazy to put it in its rightful place. 

 So it all gets grouped together. 

Sometimes I think we have a drawer of emotional 'junk' too. We feel something, and instead of engaging in dealing with it. We shove it away. The drawer gets so full of all the little stuff in live that niggles and bothers, then one day, the drawer is to full and spills where everyone can see it. 

It's a better idea to deal with each feeling & thought in the moment it reveals itself. To instantly process it, sort it, chose prayerfully how to respond ... and move on. 

I need to get better at not shoving my emotions in a drawer, just to let all that little stuff, explode later on...  dealt with NOW .... it's nothing ... but left alone to pile up ... it becomes something so big you can't ignore anymore, it starts to cause a serious problem.  

No matter which way you look at it... you have to deal with it sooner or later. Sooner is better. 

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things"

Philippians 4: 6-8

 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5