Day 3

My list of "private problems to trivial too be dignified with public status could go on and on:

• The aches and pains of being me (what one of the saints the church has called the “organ recital”)
• I wish my pants fit a little better.
• My children won't do what I tell them, the first time, every timne.
  

Those that I think may be “common to our time,” are fewer. Even though they are based on what I hear from others in our "community of faith," saying they are "common to our time" I still recognize this still must be understood in the context of "common" to those in my own small circle of the world.

• The “rat race” that is more like running on a hamster wheel – trying to do more, to be more, to have more, To prove my worth by my accomplishments, status or title.
• The desire to feel loved by others that manifests as the never ending need for the approval of others.
• The inability to live in the present, because I am too busy flipping the coins of the past and the future.
  Past, heads - “life was wonderful when… “ flip tails - “I’ll will never forgive him for…”
  Future, heads - “I’ll be able to enjoy my life when…” flip tails - “but what if everything falls apart and…”

Perhaps this Lenten season, we will be for one another, the therapy needed to bring healing to our broken and fragmented selves and our world. By the grace of God, it is my prayer.