Message Received

I've had an extremely long week. Long work hours, long home hours, tiredness, confusion, lots of emotions rolling around this week. None of them good, to be perfectly honest. This morning after a mild break down in the car (I feel like these are happening too frequently) I told myself to suck it up. People have it far worse than I do. I gathered my cup of coffee and sulked into work.  Each morning I get an email from our church. I signed up awhile ago to the Daily Devotional. It reminds me, usually, to start my day in a positive manner. Today, more than ever, I needed that email. 

 I feel overworked and unappreciated in almost every aspect of my life right now. I feel defeated and unprepared for what's ahead. The thought of the amount of changes in my life that are looming is causing a lot of anxiety for me. As I sat down at my desk huffing and puffing I opened up the email from Nativity and for the first time in what feels like weeks, I genuinely smiled. "Take a moment to ask Jesus where he might be asking you to get out of the boat, where he might be challenging you to leave your comfort zone. Then listen. Then act."

Message received.