Hello all!
He is risen! I hope you all are having a great Resurrection Sunday. Spring has sprung and there seems to be a bright change in the atmosphere. There is more daylight now and April has arrived. God is good!
This weekend I made it a point to do one thing that I’ve been putting off for at least a full month – putting my son’s new bed together. I bought the bed in February from Wayfair. I believe it was delivered the first few days in March. If any of you have ordered from Wayfair, you know that most of its items require assembly.
Praise God, he’s given me the ability to follow directions and put things together myself. Though if I’m honest, anytime it comes to assembling or having to handle heavy items, I wish I had a male partner who can do these jobs for me. Sometimes, I get downright angry if I’m having to do the work and the job is very difficult or the item is too heavy! (If you’re wondering why my son didn’t do it, he’s away at school right now)
I was going to attempt to put the bed together the second week of March, but when I opened the package, I saw a lot of pieces! In my mind there were a lot of pieces anyway. The very sight of the pieces made me think, this was going to take a long time and be a challenge. Therefore I just kept putting it off. Knowing I have obligations almost every weekend in April except this weekend, I set aside the late morning/early afternoon of Saturday to get this put together. If I couldn’t figure it out, I figured I’d work on it some more after work during the week.
Saturday morning came and I procrastinated a bit. I kept thinking about all those pieces I’d seen. I loathed the task, so I dragged my feet. I checked the reviews for encouragement. I remembered I bought it because someone said it took them under an hour to assemble. One even said 30 minutes. This motivated me to get going. Finally at 11:36am I began.
I took all the items out of the package and sorted them. I looked at the directions and began putting the bed together one piece at a time. Once I started, I realized, this really wasn’t too difficult at all. It was actually quite simple as I had all the pieces, the tool came with it and the pictures on the directions were spot on. I made one minor mistake during assembly but caught and corrected it fairly quickly. When I finished it was exactly 12:36pm. I completed the assembly in exactly one hour.
I sat there looking at the finished product and shook my head. I thought to myself, I could have finished this much earlier in March if I hadn’t told myself all of those negative things. There were too many pieces, it was too heavy, it was going to take too long, I couldn’t do it alone, etc. It was a good reminder though. Never look at a thing and become defeated in your mind before taking any action. I allowed these thoughts to fester over time without even trying. Just looking at it caused me to dread it. This made me think, where else in life may I be doing this? I need to access and change my thinking quickly!
So my question to you today is the same I had to ask myself. Where in life have you already defeated yourself because of your own negative thoughts? The hard truth is sometimes the voice inside of our head can be our own worst enemy. I pray you take some time to think about the question so you’re able to change your thoughts and take real action too. Gain the victory!
Have a great week!
~Felicia
Happiness in the Truth 