Tell me about it. Been feeling the same way. It makes me feel like the worst person in the world.
I say my patience prayer every night & had a couple glasses of wine yesterday which helped relax me.
Sometimes I just feel so pressured about everything.
Then comes the lack of patience.
Sometimes I think we can be to hard on ourselves. Years ago this was something an ultr lib professor used to say to me a lot. I think she was partially right.
St Franscis De Sales is quoted as having said; "Be the best 'you' that you can be".
That also rings true for me a lot.
On another hand, I read in my consecration recently that we are not to let our trials "crush" us.
So this give me some perspective.
If one knows thyself, we know our limitations. I don't think the Lord expects us to push ourselves up against those limitations until we are crushed.
I think he expects us to know when its time to take a break before that happens. Thus comes in the factor of not being to hard on ones self. I think it really can amount to a near occasion to sin, expecially if one is pushing themselves so hard that they in fact to sin because of that.
That is not being the best "you" that you can be, but striving to be a better you that your not. Know what I mean?
I think in an even deeper sense, these limitations can be tools the Lord uses to direct our path where He wants us. The key then becomes hearing that voice and following that direction.
I think I am definitly being led in a new direction but as usual, its into a fog and I am scared of the fog.
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