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We live in a busy, hectic and sometimes crazy world full of seemingly endless tasks and activities that all beg for our participation. It happens at work, at home, in our spiritual fellowships – the call to be more involved always seems to be close at hand.
What is even more difficult is that many of the things on our radar screens are really worthy of our personal investment. But by doing so, by giving in and yielding to their call, it isn’t long before we begin to realize that we’re stretched too thin and not doing anything really well.
And so the call for this weekend is to give ourselves permission to rest, to reorder our lives and maybe even to give ourselves a mental break by not constantly playing the ‘should’ card – you know what I’m talking about – we say things like, “I really should…. (fill in the blank).” But this gets us nowhere. And more than anything else, it isn’t a very nice way to treat ourselves.
The potential list of ‘shoulds’ in our lives is endless. It always has been. It always will be. That is a fact. Accept it. Deal with it. Learn to laugh at it and mock it when it attempts to convince you otherwise. You are the one in control, and unless you manage that infinite list of ‘shoulds’ you’re going to go nuts… and so is everyone else around you… because you’re going to drive them there!
Take a break. Relax. Bask in the knowledge that your very purpose for walking on this earth has been fulfilled by way of the life you’ve already lived. Anything else you accomplish from this point forward is merely icing on the cake.
So, today – this weekend – don’t ‘should’ on yourself.
I can definitely relate to “shoulding ourselves” to the point of being too thin, figuratively and quite literally. What can be even worse is when the shoulds become demands…then it doesn’t take a weekend to recover, it takes two weeks! Thanks for the insight.
Grace and Peace to you this Easter and always,
Alicia