This past week, in one of my early morning Devotion time, this blog about Over-committing and Overwhelmed spoke loudly to me. It is from Proverbs 31 - Valorie Burton - My Addiction to Overcommiting.
A few highlights hit me right on the money.
- Fear showed up in my tendency to be over-responsible and over-compensate. At times, even when the problem is not mine to resolve.
- Rather than accepting God's grace and my own human limitations, I get caught in the fear that I'm not good enough and therefore, I need to prove my self-worth.
- The feeling of missing out on "THE OPPORTUNITY".
- There are lots of FEAR and REJECTION as the root cause of MY need to propel and strive of over-excellence.
I’m often overwhelmed because I overloaded my schedule.
I tend to do 10 things all at the same time. For that, I must change. I’m going to say “No” – and at one point in the past, I did really good. I created “3 buckets”: God, Family and Work. If it didn’t fit the 3 buckets, I didn’t do it.
Over time, I slowly forget and let my buckets slide. And I was headed into the Danger zone because I was over-committing again.
I’m planning to take a slow step back and really evaluate each and every task and see if it fits my buckets.
I'm realizing that whether or not I get to accomplished what I set my heart to do isn't because of me anyways. It was the breadth and His strength that He gave me anyways.
I hope you will read from the Devotion and let God speak to you!
Scripture of the Week:
My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness. I'm glad to boast about my weakness so that the power of Christ can work through me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
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