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(Over)whelmed [from the archive]

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Remember this little gem from 10 Things I Hate About You?

“I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed; but can you ever just be whelmed?”

“I think you can in Europe…”

I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed this week.  It’s an over-used analogy, but I feel like I’m just barely treading water as the ocean waves are beginning to swell over my head.

But the more I think about it, I don’t want calm waters so it’s easier to swim.  No.  I want a surf board so I can ride these waves!  I think the water and waves are really about circumstances; which sometimes we can control, but often we can’t.

Whether or not I surf is about attitude.  That I CAN choose.  I can choose to take the waves as they come, ready or not, and make something out of them.  I can choose to bless every person I come in contact with, even if they are interrupting something “important,” or their presence in my day seems–God forbid–peripheral to me.  I can choose to lead and manage myself first, trusting God that other things will fall in line.

I can choose.

As my day is starting, I can see those waves coming.  Time to surf!

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