Can you focus on the goodness when there is a lot of noise?
When you have unsettling thoughts and have a hard time moving throughout the day, it can also feel heavy and loud. There is so much external noise in our lives now. Screens are popping up everywhere. Loud music often can be heard when other cars drive by us on the road. Then there is the loud muffler cars or motorcycles that can actually scare you when they pass you on the highway. They seem to come out of nowhere. These incidents can rob you of your peace and make you angry. Noise from a loved one can also hurt both involved. It hurts because you love.
It is always nice and idealic to get together with family. However, new situations of togetherness can present challenges. You all are sharing a common space. Ideally, all will contribute the same to keeping a space tidy, but that is not realistic. I have learned to navigate these situations in life by establishing a good deed. A good deed that I am aware of and do not need anything in return. I know in my heart that I have done the right thing and have left something just as good, if not better than I found it.
The excess noise can make it hard to focus on the tasks at hand. When someone lashes out at you, instead of kindly answering your question. When someone puts you down it hurts, and resentment can build. When someone points out your faults it hurts, and more resentment can build. All these things can rob your joy, if you let them. Take the time to breath before answering someone you love. Consider your words carefully.
All of these instances require a foundation of love. A strong foundation of love is required to enforce self-control, sacrifice and discipline to release goodness into the world. These behavior choices are required for love to grow and remain established. This is impossible to do on our own. God, who is love, is the glue to all success in long-term relationships. Establishing a relationship with God is essential to living a life where we do not let the noise steal our joy.
Ultimately we are called to fall back on this love repeatedly to get through the noise and challenges we will face every single day. If you are finding it hard to let go of hurt, turn to God’s word and pray. Read it until you get it! It can take a lifetime. Because everyone, yes, everyone thinks they know it all.
As I have said repeatedly as a Mom of 3, “Nothing worth doing is ever easy.” However, it is always worthwhile.” My hope is that you will continue every day to learn to love well.
You must commit to do the work. Talk with, that means talk and actively listen, to the person you love. And forgive those who have hurt you. We are called to forgive 70 x 7. That's a lot of forgiveness. Choose love and choose to be the calm in the middle of the storm.
Colossians 3: 12- 14
12 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
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