Getting Off the Crazy-making Train

Train awaiting restoration, originally uploaded by jonl1973.

Becoming brave.

Becoming brave enough to stop saying, "This or that or they are driving me crazy!"

Becoming brave enough to say, "I'm the one...I'm the crazy-maker who needs attention so badly that I do too much. I'm the one who needs to change."

Finally, becoming brave enough to say, "I will abondon my crazy-making ways, because I will never be happy as long as I stay on the crazy-making train I've been riding on.

Those who want to keep riding on the crazy-making train are free to enjoy the chaos that runs back and forth through the aisles like naughty children with sticky fingers.

So stop, crazy-making train - I'm getting off! I know I can do it, because I'm learning to become brave.

Adios!

Comments

[Wendee]

1.

I so understand the part where you said, "I'm the crazy-maker who needs attention so badly that I do too much. I'm the one who needs to change." I need to realize that I don't need acceptance from anyone except God and staying so busy trying to please everyone is not healthy for me or my family.

Thanks Ro!

[Allison]

2.

Thanks for sharing! I needed this one today... If I could share sound with my post, you would hear that behind this office door of mine is the chaos of children and life, and now I can walk out with a better attitude about it.

[Barb]

3.

There's something about trains, including OLD trains... they tend to stay on the same track and keep moving in the same direction UNTIL they are derailed.

Some old trains need to be "retired", and I can think of a few that need to STOP moving in my life! Thanks for the good thinking! (Phil 4:8)