Let the peace of God rule in your hearts...

I thought I would follow up on my last post, "Surviving Disappointment". Item #13 refers to learn to express love regardless of how I felt. Well, at the time I wrote it I knew it needed to be on the list, but I didn't know how to do it.

Last Sunday after being miserable for two weeks, I decided that enough was enough. I needed to figure out how to move forward. The answer is and always will be LOVE. I was re-reading some notes I wrote down earlier in the year and came across this scripture:

Colossians 3
12 Put on therefore, as the ^aelect of God, holy and beloved, ^bbowels of ^cmercies, ^dkindness, ^ehumbleness of mind, ^fmeekness, longsuffering;

13 ^aForbearing one another, and ^bforgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

14 And above all these things put on ^acharity, which is the bond of perfectness.

15 And let the ^apeace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye ^bthankful.

I figured out what I needed to do personally, and once the decision was made and prayed over, I woke up to a much happier and peaceful countenance on Monday (still bruised, still wishing and longing for more, but MUCH happier). I had a great week, which included

*being flashed by a patient,
*rescuing a lost 2 year old,
*treating two patients at work who have requested me specifically and that the front desk describes as my "boyfriends",
*learning about the mafia,
*teaching a patient to say "homomenous hemianopsia"
*putting a 60 year old woman on the skateboard and seeing her face light up and become as giddy as a teenage girl,
*dinner with Flor and laughing our heads off
*touring the new beautiful building my work is moving to and being so excited for it!
*receiving a kind letter in the mail
*celebrating a friend's upcoming wedding with a classy Bridal Shower
*apartment hunting with my mom
*being completely exhausted everyday after being in the pool with a bizzilion patients

All of the enjoyment from this might have been missed had I not decided to focus on charity and kindness, and allowing "the peace of God rule in [my] heart". I put into action the knowledge I gained from Colossians this weekend I am so glad that I did.