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Why Drama?


This past week I have been reminded how my life used to be.  Full of DRAMA…  At least, I sure thought that it was.  I could make anything and everything dramatic, and I did.  If I didn’t like my job, it was a full out ordeal that EVERYONE had to know about.  If I didn’t like my friends or family, same thing…  If I was extremely busy, or at least what I thought was extremely busy before I had kids, I had to make a huge deal about it.  I guess life hasn’t changed all that much, but my outlook on life has changed and therefore, my life is changed. 

Life is always going to throw curve balls at us.  ALWAYS!  There is no way around this idea, it is a truth.  Life isn’t necessarily easy but depending on how we look at it doesn’t have to be stressful and full of drama all the time.  I used to be so stressed out until I realized, guess what – the world doesn’t revolve around me…  A novel concept I assure you.  I used to believe that everything in the world would revolve around me.  If someone said something that made me feel bad, they did it intentionally because they knew that I was struggling with this or that.  If something didn’t work out, it was just my luck…  I always had to be the victim of some unforeseen circumstance and always assumed that everyone was talking about me behind my back or talking badly about me etc…  How selfish is that?  How selfish to think that just because I have a lot going on in my life, everyone is out to get me. 

Now, I know that I have about 3 friends right now that are reading this thinking; she is writing this blog about me.  Truth be told, I am not, I am writing it about a lot of different observations that I have made over the past 3 weeks which ended with a sermon that I heard on Sunday. 

Spring is a time of new life, new beginnings, and new opportunities.  Take this spring and make a new start.  A drama free start.  Put up a drama fence (like a snow fence).  You can see the drama surrounding you, but you don’t let it get all over you and really effect you terribly.  You have a snow fence up to protect your driveway from the terrible drifts that occur, put up a dram fence to protect your life from all the hatred and negativity that goes on in your mind.  Don’t let it catch up to you! 

I finally got away from drama when I realized that the world didn’t revolve around me.  That even if I don’t do this or that, the world was going to keep on spinning.  The drama was all self inflicted, do I still have issues, yes!  But, I was projecting so much of the drama that I assumed was truth, into my life and it was terrible.  I realize it is when I let myself go there that it effects me terribly.  When I let my body falter, it really shows because my brain isn’t where it should be.  When I start feeling bad for myself, I remember that Jesus died for me and for everyone else too- and He loves me.  I know who I am in Christ.

This weekend our Pastor spoke about God wanting us to live a long life.  A good life.  A life worth living.  You should definitely listen to his message here.  The scripture for the day is in there too – what a Great God that we serve!
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