If one was to describe me, they would say I got my emotions up my sleeves. Its has been my truth for as long as I can remember. I would let how I feel control how I respond to life situations and stuff like that. Please bear in mind I don’t mean anger issues. I mean any small thing had the power to make me sad, or maybe be quickly offended and withdraw.
Of late, after a certain work incident, I knew I had to make some changes with regards to that. I believe its a positive change because it is helping me process things better. Of course am not going to ignore my feelings, but am not going to let them control my mood and ruin the day, instead, I control them.
With day to day life, we come across things that can and will irritate us. There will be clashes and some silent wars going on be it work places schools or family. By choosing to not let offence determine how you will live your life, it frees you from being controlled by other people.
So what is controlling ones feelings? Well, I will give an example, of what happened the other day. Here I am, doing my business I set up my things at work, and then someone decides to take what I was using for themselves because they reasoned they were in a more critical position. Mind you what I had set up for my project were not the only material available, this person could have just done their own setup. And unfortunately it disrupted my work and on my side it was a total flop. Both projects were equally important. How did I react to this. Yes, I was hurt and disappointed, it was easy for me to resent this person, put all the blame on them. But I didn’t, I chose to forgive. Did this situation jeopardize my work? Yes! But did it tarnish my heart? No! I was completely free. Their project worked just fine and turned out great, mine didn’t, but my spirit was free. Forgiveness is such a powerful tool. I can smile and go about my business. Did I make them see that it wasn’t a fair thing they did? Yes! But in a wise friendly way, that they acknowledged.
Forgiveness is such a powerful tool.
So what am doing, am simply using what the bible says and leaving it all in Gods hands. Forgive 70 times 7, that’s a hard pill to swallow, but trust me it frees you from being full of negative energies. I CHOOSE WHAT TO DO IN A SITUATION DESPITE FEELING A CERTAIN WAY.
Well that’s one way of doing that, can you think of other ways?
The voice in me 
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