lln’s blog

Look around you. Cars whoosh past on their way to wherever, people walking down the street of a city, rushing to work, hurrying up to eat lunch in an hour, and going to various appointments. Students walk as fast as they can so as not to be late to their next class. We live in a world of deadlines. Hardly ever a day goes by without a deadline of some sort, though some are easier to accomplish than others. In this world that we live in, it can be incredibly easy to get stressed out. “Well, of course,” you might say, “Everyone gets stressed out.” But is this really the right attitude to have? Is stress really anything besides a failure to trust in God to accomplish our daily tasks? I think that’s exactly what it is. When I look at my life, and all the deadlines i have: piano lessons, voice lessons, guitar lessons, school work, test prep, church and chores, just to mention a few, it is really easy to get overwhelmed. But I have got to learn to stop taking the responsibility to accomplish all these things. After all, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything at all without Christ. I can’t do anything on my own anyways, so why do I pretend to have control? Well, of course, the answer to that is sin. But, I need to pray earnestly so that I might become a trusting student in a stressed-out world.