The world is big.
Watching the news…it’s a big big world. I’m in Arizona watching the news and it goes from Arizona to California to New York to Paris to China. There was news about weather, science, politics, health, sports…from all over! I bet there wasn’t 20% about Arizona! 🙂
Frankly it was overwhelming. People in Afghanistan. Scientists in China. Soccer players in England. Bats in Sedona. Caterpillars in Tuscon. Hurricane in Mexico. Homeless in Denver. Of course none of it good news. All bad news, all over the world…overwhelming.
I found myself getting stressed out. Frankly I’ve been stressed out for the past year and a half. Who hasn’t?! It’s overwhelming! Surely there was something I could do about one of those things. Then the next night…it was a whole different list of things and places! How could I possibly make a difference? What could I do?
The invention of the internet has as they say, “made the world smaller”. But I now believe that is a lie. A really dangerous lie. The world is huge. 8 billion people, 195 countries, over 7000 languages…the world is HUGE. No amount of pictures or emails or txts or posts can change that. It’s just freakin HUGE. And it’s NOT my responsibility.
It was overwhelming but there is a reason it is overwhelming and stressful. What could I possibly do? Then I realized…there is NOTHING I could do. I mean I can vote. And of course there are the few things we support financially that are dear to our hearts. But man…it was a lot!
And the next day I went to my coffee shop. And there was Kevin. And there was Micah. And I realized something…
THE world is very big but MY world is very small.
I endeavored to shrink my world. When I shrink my world, it’s not nearly as overwhelming and stressful. In fact, I shrunk it so much that even though that dang lady let her dog crap on the sidewalk without cleaning it up…AGAIN…I realized that even THAT isn’t my world. It’s in my world, but it’s not MY world. It’s not my responsibility to tell that knucklehead to clean up after their dog.
MY world is and MY responsibilities are very very small. I can list those things on one hand! And they are REALLY important things. My family. My friends. My job. My church….my golf game…MY world is really small and it’s really important!
Thank God! What a relief…I won’t wake up tomorrow with the title of King. “King James”….nice ring to it. But thank God, someone already has that title and it’s never going to be me! What a relief.
For the past year I have been so stressed about THE world…now I’m excited about MY world. I can make a difference in my world.
It is now shrink wrapped to just my size…
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