A thought by Parrott, (2012-08-02) from his book, You're Stronger Than You Think: The Power to Do What You Feel You Can't (p. 16). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle
Edition.
I
remember the day that I knew Margaret was the one I was going to marry. I didn’t need to solve all the problems. I just needed to ask her and then go from
there. I’m glad I didn’t overanalyze it
and do it. There were a lot of things
that would have said we shouldn’t do it.
One was, I was 27 and she was 17.
One was, her father was a Cincinnati Red’s fan and I was a LA Dodger’s
fan. Our first fight was over that. I have come a long ways since those days. But there were issues that would have said it
might not work but we are still at it now 39 years later. And we both knew it would work.
This
can and has been a problem for me. It is
so easy to have a problem and overanalyze what to do. Too many times I would think it to death.
Sometimes
analyzing needs to be done but sometimes we need to just do what our heart and
mind is saying we are to do, to not overthink it.
I
remember the day that I knew Margaret was the one I was going to marry. I didn’t need to solve all the problems. I just needed to ask her and then go from
there. I’m glad I didn’t overanalyze it
and do it. There were a lot of things
that would have said we shouldn’t do it.
One was, I was 27 and she was 17.
One was, her father was a Cincinnati Red’s fan and I was a LA Dodger’s
fan. Our first fight was over that. I have come a long ways since those days. But there were issues that would have said it
might not work but we are still at it now 39 years later. And we both knew it would work.
I
think there were some things I overanalyzed as a pastor and I didn’t do some
things that I could have done because of that.
Fear can cause us to not do what our intuition and faith says we can do.
Sometimes
we don’t have time to stop and really think something through. Other times we do have the time and we need
to stop and really think it through. But
we usually spend so much time keeping ourselves from doing some things that
would really be very good things to do.
I
have come to the place in my life that I don’t want to miss out on what God has
for me because of needing to solve all the problems. Our mind and our spirit many times already know
what the answer is. So all we have to do
is to have confidence and go for it.
So
what is your intuition telling you to do?
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