It's Not Worth Anything

Midterms, essays, book reports, papers and those major projects are all slowly creeping up which makes for a very stressful time of year.

Facebook, video games, baking, eating, playing sports, going to the mall and pretty much anything else that will help one procrastinate from studying looks even more wonderful. (blogging could be included....)

Much of our procrastination time is spent on things that really aren't worth much like endless hours on facebook or watching mindless TV to attempt to give us a break and distract us for a moment. The issue is though that this procrastination time leaves us stressed and for those who are pro enough not to procrastinate and their brains have simply shut off cause we are using them to the max also leaves us super duper overwhelmed and well .... STRESSED!

As a Christian have you ever thought about what God thinks about your stress?
Well I have actually.... a little and would like to share my thoughts
So! First I would like to identify what the stress is.... more like what I think it is.
The bad kind of stress that leaves one feeling sick, flustered, and disillusioned with all the homework or tasks that one faces is the type that I am discussing here. We are worried or concerned that something will not get done on time or something will go wrong or someone will be upset etc.

So what do these have all in common? Several things actually! First for the most part they are not in our control (in regards to homework we are told that we should have had better time management skills.... for some YA RIGHT!). We as humans love to have our grubby little hands over everything and control everything. Second for the most part these things will come to pass and not make a huge difference in our lives to come ... I do understand how life changing decisions do not apply to this.Yet?
                                         Does stress make it happen any faster or more effectively?
       Does stress bring us any closer to God? in my case no i feel far from him
Does stress improve our lives in any way, big or small?        
                                       Does stress do anything for us?                                 NO!
NO!
                 NO!                                               NO!                       NO!                               NO!
 NO!                                    NO!                                                                NO!
                                                                                        NO!
From those questions my personal conclusion is that

Stress is not Worth it, any of it

I made the commitment this year not to be stressed because it's not worth it. Not worth my time, my energy or my emotions because in reality none of those are mine anyway. There God's. Everything that I am and have is his and from what I understand of who God is he does not want me to suffer like this and I do not have to. Yes we are still going to feel overwhelmed with work and our personal lives but even with this chaos swirling around us we can and should find peace in knowing that he is holding us and everything around us together.

So if you are feeling stressed I would suggest to do this, take a couple of very deep and slow breaths, calm your body down and go somewhere that is quite and be still. Be still and calm and quite and know that God is God.

Be still and know that I am God