Sometimes life throws challenges at us. They are often not fun. For me, anger enters the scene and I don’t do well. Of course, as a person who has spent large amounts of time in therapy and has done considerable work on self, I am very aware of this.

Still, I lose to anger. Anger takes me away from the very thing I seek. PEACE. I am most certain that Satan loves this. It is probably such an easy temptation Satan uses, that he sends a useless minion to do the job.

When anger grabs me, I can stay in that place for a long time. Too long. Sometimes, I stay in anger way too long, and guess what? No PEACE. Sometimes, I only partially return to God and well…no surprises here folks…I only get a little PEACE. When I FULLY give myself back to God, the PEACE returns.

I have had some good long runs of staying on Pointe. What do I mean? Keeping God as the Support that carries me, instead of me trying to carry me.

I Forget that God’s Got This. He is the Support.

A woman told me a story how she was dreading an upcoming meeting with a colleague. The resentment was looming and so she prayed while she was getting ready to head to work for the day. The answer to her prayer was the message “He is my child”. Her reply to God? “Well then come get him!” Now you go figure this out, but the meeting went fairly well, as was not typical for this scenario. God’s Got This. He is the Support.

As I booked my flight for my business trip, I was unable to select my seat for the first leg of the trip. I had a feeling the flight was overbooked, but it was the flight I needed, and I figured it would work itself out. Who knows with airlines these days? It could have been any number of reasons. I was sitting in the terminal, and then it happened. My name got called to report to the Kiosk. I knew what was about to take place. I was the target. No seat available for me to fly on my flight and no other flights headed to my destination until the next morning. The woman behind the counter tried to find solutions, none of which were going to work out. I shrugged my shoulders as I had no other options, except to cancel my trip and head back home. I elected to just wait it out. The woman looked at me and said. “Well, we are just going to have to pray. Let’s pray that someone misses their flight.” I looked at her and just nodded my head saying, “Ok thank you.” and headed back to my seat which was now taken. GRRR… I can’t pray for that, was what I was thinking. That is just plain wrong to pray that someone misses their flight. I can’t pray for the misfortune of others. Minutes after I sat back down, an announcement was made that our flight would be delayed as there was no crew for the equipment that was still at its departing airport. As people got up and flocked to the counter to make adjustments to their travels, I knew I would have a seat on my upcoming flight. God’s Got This. He is the Support.

In discussions with a coworker about a situation that I needed to address as part of my job duties, I was coming up short on the solution. I was close, but not where I needed to be. The coworker said, “Well let’s pray for a breakdown.” Here it was again, I thought. Praying for misfortune to help me out? Now I know these folks didn’t necessarily mean pray to God for misfortune for others, in benefit of me, but the language certainly felt that way.  However, God knows what we need. He knows that in our hearts we are not praying for the misfortune of others. What are we praying for? We are praying for God to take this and provide as we do not have control. We need His help and guidance as I continuously demonstrate that my way equals anger. His ways equals PEACE. The results are not in on my current situation. God’s Got This. He is the Support.

Staying on Pointe

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