Comments on: Motivation: If I don’t yell, how will anything get done?

By: Cheryl V.

Cheryl V. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:27:42 +0000

“If we could always allow God’s perfect love to cast out our fear…what would life be like?” To live without the gnawing agony of fear: fear of rejection, of dismissal, of failure, of not being good enough. Life without fear would be…joy.

The issue with allowing God’s love to disolve my fear is the fact that I must be wholely dependent on His timing. “I want to feel better now” I whine to myself. In His providential care, He allows my fears and I’m driven back to Him…over and over as I reach the emotional end of me.

So, perhaps not until Heaven…?

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:49:34 +0000

Thanks for posting those songs, ~L:) I really liked both of them!

By: David Hamilton

David Hamilton — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:31:14 +0000

How do I come up with these metaphors? Haven’t you ever heard that all great psychological theories are autobiographical? :)

By: amy l maris

amy l maris — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:17:16 +0000

Wow, I’m getting a craving for corn chips (my yelling avoidance junk food of choice)
How do you come up with these great metaphors? It’s as if you’re painting a picture for us all to contemplate. Somehow sitting in your art gallery of verbiage I find myself saying, “Mmm Hmmm.”

By: ~L

~L — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:13:47 +0000

we would be free…

~sorry I can’t help myself… this is the song I thought about when you asked the question “what would life be like”?

By: David Hamilton

David Hamilton — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:01:50 +0000

~L, You make a very good point that for so many of these things I write about, we already know it. "Be kind, don't yell, hope, listen, forgive." We know all those things. But we're afraid. We're sad. We're angry. We think the way through is to ignore those emotions. But it's like ignoring a flat tire. We can be so afraid of our anger, so afraid or our sadness, so afraid of our fear... So afraid of not being able to change the tire, that we ignore it. If we could always allow God's perfect love to cast out our fear... what would life be like?

By: ~L

~L — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:53:46 +0000

I 100% agree with you Jaylynn… when you figure out a way to stop the yelling in you’re head let me know how you did it.

This post is good, but I think I know these things I just don’t do them… it makes me feel totally lazy and like I have just quit?????????? I know that I can’t do this… so I just need to ask God to do it… why I think I can do this on my own is just stupid… It’s like I am to week to fight my own thoughts… or I do at times and just run our of energy from all the fighting. I need someone to fight for me. I posted a song that is amazing!

I know I am music freak and I tend to share music with most my thoughts… but this song is truly beautiful!!!! And it’s this song that keeps my thoughts quite in my head… so if it helps me maybe it will help someone else who struggles with yelling at them self? And even though sometimes I don’t hear Him when I call, as the song says… I know He is there.

By: Jaylynn

Jaylynn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:12:53 +0000

I read this 5 times and I am still trying to figure out a way to stop all the yelling I do to myself. I get that I should not do it, but it is easier said then done.