Alone in a crowd

I'm sure everyone can relate to this feeling... being surrounded by people yet feeling completely alone. It affects all of us at one point or another. From here you have two choices: let the feeling overtake you and cause depression and sadness or fight back. This is a struggle I face from time to time. Sometimes I will find myself consumed with the thoughts of loneliness and just cry. But I get to a point where I don't care about the mind games the devil tries to play because I know what God's word says.  In Colossians 2:1 it says, "I want you to realize that I continue to work as hard as I know how for you, and also for the Christians over at Laodicea. Not many of you have met me face-to-face, but that doesn't make any difference. Know that I'm on your side, right alongside you. You're not in this alone." Really, it's the last part of this verse that speaks to me. God says I'm on your side and you're not in this alone! He is always there with you, no matter how much people fail you or make you feel abandoned. God is and will always be there!!! You can count on Him always. He is your comforter on the loneliest days. Nothing can go wrong in your life than God cannot handle and fix. Trust Him, completely.

The Soda Can Syndrome

If you're anything like me, you like to take your emotions and feelings and pack them up nice and tight. No one can see them. Everything is under control. That is, until there is some shaking that goes on. You feel the pressure building, but you know if you pop that top open, it's gonna get ugly!
This is what I've been dealing with basically my whole life, but just now actually addressing the issue. I've had to be so independent, that sometimes it is difficult for me to depend on God, although I know in my brain that I really do need Him. When something happens to me, my natural response is to bottle it all up because, hey, I've totally got this under control. But that problem is, when things are bottled up so much and you start getting shaken, pressure builds and eventually, it will explode. Then you've got a sticky situation on your hands.
I'm steady learning to communicate and express my feelings before the pressure even begins to build to avoid a blow out. I'm working to correct my Soda Can Syndrome. 


"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight"
-Proverbs 3:5-6