It must be spring as I feel the need to really talk about things that make me go crazy. Regrets - don't need them, Blame - don't want to do it, and now woe - needs to stop!
Do you ever have a day that just doesn't go right for you. I mean everything seems to go wrong. You forget to take an umbrella and it rains, you don't take the bus like you usually do and get in a fender bender, you walk to work and find they are working on the sidewalks, you take your vitamin C and still get a nasty spring cold, you put down weed killer and still the dandelions appear, you want to go for a bike ride and the wind and cold make it miserable...you get the picture, woe is everywhere!
My answer...if you don't wear long robes, heal the blind and ride into town on a donkey GET DOWN FROM YOUR TREE!
That's right folks - If your name isn't Jesus Christ get down off YOUR tree!
Woe - interesting word. It means to have grief, regret or distress. Woe is me would mean then that you regret yourself, you are in distress, or you are full of grief.
So how do we remove the woe in our lives?
I talked earlier about regrets so we all know what to do about them - own them, pay attention and see the outcome, but how about distress and grief?
What is distress? Distress is a situation that causes you great pain. Now there are times that many of us are in great distress. This is not right or wrong it just is. The key to stopping the woe in the situation is to figure out what the distress is about. If you are sick and in physical pain, distress is very easy to figure out. Of course you do not feel well and of course it is a bad situation, but woe comes only from not acknowleging that distress happens and it is how we deal with it that makes it a woe or a blessing.
What is grief? Grief is the maximum distress one can feel. It means that the outcome of an event is unfortunate and most likely unexpected. It is OKAY to feel grief, in fact grief is part of a healing process. Woe comes in when we take no action for healing and rather live in our misery. Woe is me.
Regrets, distress, and grief - all very powerful emotions and left unattended to can be debilitating and life changing.
Negative regrets happen when we do not pay attention to what is important in our lives.
Negative distress happens when we refuse to remember that to be alive means to live.
Negative grief happens when we stop to look at how the event or situation can improve who we are.
Death, life, sickness, divorce, accident, or whereever your woe comes from needs to be embraced. It is only in the embracing of the hard stuff that we really can grow into who we are.
Woe is me? I don't think so - I would rather think of it as Blessed is me!
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