In search of hope
Monday morning cup of thoughts
My friend,
, recently introduced me to , written by Scott Monty. In perusing Scott’s work, I came across his post entitled Hang Onto Your Hat. His words resonate deeply with me. I’m sharing them at the start of this week in hopes you will enjoy them as much as I do.There will always be factors that are outside of our realm of control. We can’t control what others do or think. We can’t control external forces. But we can control our reaction to them.
We are in command of our own minds. And by focusing our efforts on what we can control, we offer up more hope.
I’m gonna disagree with the idea that we can control our reactions. All my life I heard from my dad “you are in control of you”. I had all kinds of teaching and coaching and you can control your emotions, You can control how you respond to situations, etc.. I don’t think it’s true. I think we can control to some extent what we do with that reaction. What we do when we experience, different kinds of energy and different feelings. That takes skill. Control is probably the word that I object to most, having felt like there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t control my reactions and my feelings.
I read this once and loved the saying. “We can’t change the direction of the wind but we can change the direction of our sails”.