Today I went to the nail salon after work and got a manicure and a pedicure and it was awesome. The sight of my toes were beginning to scare me so this treatment was definitely over-due. An hour and ten freshly painted pink toes later, I am one happy woman.
After Nathan and I went and got Papa Murphey's because sometimes I'm too lazy to really cook, and we like to eat like kings when pay day rolls around. It's nice.
Also I've been feeling worried and overwhelmed about various things in my life. I know I'm supposed to be focusing on happy things because of this challenge (and also because, well, you really should focus on the positive in life all the time) but the past few days I've felt like a rain cloud has been hanging over me. I have all these goals and things that I want to achieve and do, but when I sit down and consider the costs and time required to do such things, I begin to feel swallowed up by impossibility and doubt. I try to reassure myself that if I put God first that all things work out, and I do truly believe that, but it's kind of hard to put that faith into action 24 hours of the day. Ya know? Especially when I see others achieving the things I so desperately long for and then I look at myself and feel as if I am making no progress.
I'm sure you've all felt the same way at some point.
Anywho Day 13 of 100 Happy Days really has been a success, despite my moping. I am just so grateful for my Heavenly Father who I know watches over me and takes care of me, and knows a lot better than me.
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Hannah I know exactly how you feel! I've felt kinda down lately too. It's so hard to try to improve myself and be proud of what I'm doing when I see other people doing things that I perceive are so much greater and grander than what I'm doing. What helps me partially is staying off social media...I know it sounds simple and dumb, but it really has helped me so much. I rarely get on Facebook, and Instagram is no longer on my phone! I miss staying connected that way to people, but God doesn't intend for us to feel that way about ourselves, and if social media was standing in between me and His love, then I had to be gone with it!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are so great! I look up to you so much and am so grateful I got to learn from your close example for one semester while we were roommates :) Love ya!