O this bug! Can’t get rid of it;
It won’t stay and won’t leave
It just won’t let me be
I am tempted to frustration
But I won’t travel that route
It’s taunting me with failure
But I know that’s not the truth
It claimed I don’t care enough
But who is this bug to say!
I am not who I am because of
What I have, do or can’t
I am, because of He who is in me
And I can do all things through Him
So today, I choose to rise and stand
Work my way above this bugger
Today I choose to be the voice:
“Bug off loser, the victor’s got the dais!”
My life has been a series of transitions lately requiring adjustments to many things I’m typically not used to. With that process comes issues bugging here and there. Some people call them problems, I refer to them as challenges. Problems make me feel helpless, challenges compel me to take responsibility for what I can do about the situation. So I have been logging in quiet a number.
God blessed me with a helper who works the photos from the onset of the website so I have not had to bother about that. Part of the changes that befell me is that I have had to work the photos myself and it has been quiet dramatic. Some days they are great and some others, they turn out upside down or way out of focus but believe me, they are beautiful photos to start with. I recall a friend commenting, “I think the photo is upside down!” You won’t believe my response, “Life is upside down sometimes” 🙂
One of the lessons I took along after God delivered me from obsessive perfectionism is to step aside after I have done my best and just let things be. Another wisdom gleaned over time is to laugh at myself. I have also learned to laugh it off when my best shows up skewed or downside up. To laugh at situations attempting to embarrass my sincere efforts. Nevertheless, because I believe that God deserves the best I can give, I have been wondering how to get the photos to quit misbehaving.
This week, I decided enough is enough: I will no longer let these photos take a position of their own on a site I manage; from henceforth, I will be the one taking that decision. I hunkered down on this bug that refused to respect what I value and after a series of battling back and forth, I figured the way to make them compliant. Out of that eater emerged delicious lesson that has further empowered me to manage better, what God has committed into my hands. I was not only relieved, I was glad, grateful and more skillful.
How many times do we throw in the towel before we have learned the lessons that God would have us extract from situations that tend to embarrass us? I learned it is not enough to refuse to be embarrassed and yet do nothing about. Our duty is to give our best and thereafter, trust God to guide us and the invested efforts toward fruitful results. We lose when we give up on what we are meant to master. We learn when we persist: we not only overcome, life gives us one more reason to celebrate no matter how little the cause. Don’t quit before you have discovered the beauty in your bugs today.
Blessings
Glory!