Its the curse of hormones I know. Once a month I get overwhelmed. I can handle just about anything…most of the month anyway. But this year, there’s too many personal, financial, relational and business crises. I’ve been overwhelmed much more often than one a month and hormone peaks and valleys have nothing to do with it (except make it worse). I run a business that’s mainly customer service oriented. When my staff is overwhelmed with calls and tasks, they know what I’m going to tell them, “Just do the next thing next. Keep focusing on the next important thing and the rest will sort itself out.”
I was thinking about feeling that way today and ran across these images of the North Carolina mountains I took this summer. It was a really hazy weekend and the mountains seemed to go on forever from where we stood. One after another, layer and layer of varying hues of blue. Not unlike how I feel about my life at the moment. Layer upon layer of issues, stretching to the horizon.
While the mountains are beautiful, my world would be prettier with several fewer layers. But, in the same way my eyes are drawn to the foliage and flowers in these images to give the mountains perspective, so I’ll keep focusing the next thing right in front of me until the clouds clear again. (Yes, I’m reminding myself!)
