The Avoid-Dance

Avoidance is about controlling our world to escape experiencing feelings of pain, shame,and anxiety.

Avoidance is expensive because we keep borrowing emotional currency from our future selves so we can live rent-free today. (Without struggle).Life has struggles. We cannot avoid them all forever. The more we can be present in our pain, the healthier we can become today. As followers of Jesus, we know he is always with us. When we put that into action (faith), we trust he is with us in the valleys and the mountaintop days. As that faith muscle grows, we can learn to find his peace in the middle of our pain.

Learning to process today’s pain as soon as possible propels us to believe that we can handle our life and its challenges. Passing those trials off until another time only reinforces the nagging idea that we can’t handle life. Which further convinces us we don’t have what it takes to overcome.

As a Christian, we can overcome this because we have a powerful advocate. We can overcome because that advocate is crazy in love with you. Yes, you.Right in the middle of your day.

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