Firstly, let me explain something.

This is not a poetry post but you are all welcome to read my poems! They will really bless your day because God really blest me when I wrote them! Keep scrolling down to find them.

Yesterday was a really stressful day for me. When I saw this daily writing prompt I thought, “Yes! I would like to write about yesterday but in a way that if I lived IT again, this alternative here would be far better.”

This writing exercise is helping me to avoid the errors of yesterday.

So firstly, let’s talk about the actual universe I existed in yesterday.

I was acting like I had a strict deadline meaning the whole day was an emergency. In reality, the day was not that way.

• I was feeling quite sick
• I was helping my daughter with a job
• I received a message that we owed over $2000 to a Government Department
• I was doing personal laptop work relating to income, tax and finances
• I was thinking about the guest coming tomorrow
• I was thinking about the cleaning in the house that needed doing
• I was thinking that I still hadn’t organised dinner for the family
• I was thinking that I still hadn’t gone to the shops
• I was stressed about a debt in the future that hadn’t even arrived yet

But as I analysed this later, I realised that there was only one job I needed to do, not all of the above! Even the one job I was doing, was not an emergency and I still had time to do it! I was operating with many fictional burdens that didn’t even exist but burdens that I was carrying even so.

Why?

I was essentially operating in a brainless fashion.

Stress does this to you. When you are stressed, it is easy to make poor decisions and your brain goes out the window.

I like to say, “Use your brain, don’t lose your brain.” Meaning….if you use your brain calmly, you will keep cool cognition flowing and you will function at peak performance.

Stress cannot be our driver, as it lies, distorts, thinks of the future and doesn’t operate with the mind of Christ.

Stress can operate without the brain, it specialises in mental crashes, including spiritual ones.

I even asked God yesterday, “Why do you leave me so broken?”

Meaning, I don’t want to feel stressed and struggle all the time! I want to feel what You are precisely telling us in Your Word. To remain permanently and perpetually calm.

As I think about all this now, I realised that I was not operating in God’s will yesterday. He already knew life was sinful, broken and messy but it did not need to be that sinful, that broken, that messy, in the way that I was operating outside His will. I was “over the top messy” with extra burdens that God didn’t tell me to carry and I was causing myself more pain by a completely unrealistic To Do List that God didn’t even write up for me.

In this alternate universe, I would go back and tweak yesterday. The whole day! I would change it by the hindsight I had today. I would live as God wanted me to live without the mess I had actually already experienced. I would live in this alternate universe, where God would be teaching me the whole time so that either living in the current or “other universe” I would be growing in both dimensions, the way God desired.

The good news? Even though we cannot go back and tweak yesterday, God already knows past, future and present.

There is no alternate universe for us. Not yet anyway!

But God is in all universes if they exist!

Based on His omnipresent leading, He will help you and me to live calmer today because He put this thought in our minds, “God will help me to trust Him as this is 100% His will, 100% of the time.”

Living in the spirit is the only way to maximise your spiritual coolness!

When you start getting hot in the flesh, like I did yesterday, a good thing to remember is to live like you only have one job to do.

Until that job is done, you only have one!

One job!

Forget the rest, dear Christian!

You could be in heaven by the end of the day.