Today I found something on another blog that relates back a couple posts to my blenderful of feelings and not knowing how to handle all of them. It encouraged me. . .I'm not alone in this. Other people are in the exact same place. This is the quote and realization that was on that blog (I am thankful for finding):
Contradictions have always existed in the soul of man. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.~ Thomas Merton
In other words...stop analyzing. BE STILL. Spend more time in silence with God. Instead of with my own thoughts and opinions. Hand them over to God in prayer. "Lean not on my own understanding but in all my ways acknowledge HIM.."
Isaiah 30:15 "In returning and rest you shall be saved. In quietness and trust shall be your strength."
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