Frame It
About a decade ago, an acquaintance lamented in a harried email about her overwhelming misfortune regarding health struggles, financial disasters, relationship issues, and daily dissonance with virtually any activity.
She wrote of the anticipated anxiety over an impending phone call scheduled for the next day, that she fretted would escalate into a full-blown knock-down-drag-out brawl concerning a health insurance dispute, and was equally sure it would effervesce into a stroke.
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Her stress was viscerally palpable through the computer screen, and caused widespread discord with in my body. The agonal correspondence concluded with, “I have to get some sleep, because I need to be in a god frame of mind for this.”
Now, some may find the “God frame of mind” as pious, natural, or even inspiring, but this person would not have initiated or professed such tender vittles. I chuckled at what I knew was an unmistakable error, and should have read “good frame of mind.”
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I quickly and happily pointed out her blunder, and postulated that maybe the Divine was directing her hand at that moment to show her another way. Instead of struggle, fear, overwhelm, and sinking ship mentality, to change her focus, and upgrade from a “good” to “God” frame of mind.
After laughing, she agreed, and that newfangled levity, relaxed her enough to realize that she was carrying around enormous burdens and negative beliefs, which would make clearing these inescapable and pestering hurdles impossible. A thought is just a thought, and can be swiftly and easily altered from the dungeon of doldrums to the fantastical.
By altering her belief system to an agreeable and workable outcome, she abandoned fear and the victim mode, and sat with faith and love to which endless positive options abide. She chose to be in a God frame of mind. What are you framing?
~ ” Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths,” Proverbs 3:5-6 ~
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