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My Heart Won Over My Head Today

The other day I had a conflict between my heart and my head. It turns out that my heart won.

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This kind of conflict happens when you know something to be true or something seems to be logical, but you want or wish for a different outcome. 

On the outset you would think that isn’t a fair fight at all. Truth and logic should win out every time. In reality, however, it doesn’t always happen.

The truth is that I know the dish of M&M’s on the table over there is not good for me. That’s a fact. But I really feel like tasting that peanut, coated in chocolate, covered in a hard candy shell. 

Guess what won that fight? I downed about seven or eight of them before I could stop myself. 

The truth and feelings fight may never be fair but somehow feelings wins the day way more than we would think. 

It’s like an underdog win. We never expect it to even be close, but sometimes we root for the underdog and we are really happy when it wins.

Yesterday I watched the Super Bowl. I knew some information about the two teams and I knew the odds. 

The favourite team was the Kansas City Chiefs; the underdone was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

The two quarterbacks were at the center of the ranking. The Chiefs’ quarterback is young, brilliant and makes plays out of nothing, scrambling out of trouble to gain yards. The Buccaneers’ quarterback is old (in terms of football), crafty, wise and has all the experience the young quarterback lacks. 

I had watched the two teams play during the season and I was convinced, like the odds makers, that Kansas City would beat Tampa Bay … but my heart wanted the Buccaneers to win for Tom Brady, their quarterback. 

He’s already won six Super Bowls – one more win and it would put him in a category by himself. He won’t have too many more chances to make it happen. He’s my boy, so my heart was with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.

As for Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs’ quarterback, he has won one already, and with his whole career ahead of him, he will undoubtedly win more. Both he and his team were so skilled, though, I really didn’t think they could possibly lose. 

When it came down to game time, I didn’t have any doubts. Chiefs would win, even though I wanted the Bucs to pull it off. 

In the end, against the odds, the underdogs won the game. … My heart won over my head. 

And an ironic thing took place in the game. The team that should have won, the team that was picked as the favourite, let their emotions, their feelings, get the better part of them. 

They got into penalty trouble and, though I’m not saying it’s what cost them the game, their emotions or feelings were a detriment to their game. 

As for me, there is no weeping over the fact my heart won over my head. I’m quite happy with the outcome. 

Here’s the thing: Sometimes you will have an agenda before you. You will be on a time constraint. But then you feel that there is someone you need to care for, a call you should make, a kind deed you should do. That’s God nudging you, trying to get you to let your feelings win over your head. Make sure you follow your feelings in those cases. You will be happy you did. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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Frustration Won Me Over

I was frustrated last night and I carried that frustration to bed with me.

It was the day that determined the two teams that would go on to the Super Bowl.

My frustration was not with the games or the teams; in fact, both the teams I wanted to win, won.

The first game I watched rather intently, but the second game … well, I was interested; I wanted to see it, but I had watched so much football already that I was a little football weary.

I didn’t want to entirely miss the game, so I turned to multitasking.

Now, I am not a great multitasker; I need to focus on one thing at a time. So when I do a couple of things at the same time, my productivity goes way down.

Yesterday that was okay; I didn’t mind. The game was going to be on all evening; I had time on my hands and just needed a slight distraction, while still being able to follow the action of the game.

There were a couple of multitasking possibilities for such a situation: I could play pool – the TV was right there; all I’d have to do was turn it – or I could fly my new drone around the family room.

… I tried both of these activities and still there were 3 1/2 quarters of football to go.

I then resorted to my go-to TV multitasking standby: my computer. I wanted to make some changes to our church website that I hadn’t gotten to in a long time.

Since I was doing two things at the same time – watching a game and working on the computer – I wasn’t frustrated at first when I ran into problems making the changes I wanted to make.

I knew that I had plenty of time while the game was on, so I just turned my attention to the plays for a few minutes.

As the game neared the end, I really wanted to be at the end of making those web changes … but I still couldn’t figure out how to do them.

Long after the game was over, some show was on TV that I was not one bit interested in, but it provided background noise that kept the frustration from really taking hold of me.

I looked at the time – it was way later than I wanted to be up and working on this! Then the frustration set its hooks into me and I laboured on it a little longer, with a little more angst building inside me.

I finally gave up for the night; frustration had won, but I planned to try another approach the next day.

It was time for bed, but how could I sleep? I was all keyed up, frustrated and not really ready to settle down.

So I put on a movie and let my mind chill out. It worked; it wasn’t long before I started to nod off.

… I had just needed to turn my attention to something else.

Here’s the thing: Frustration captures and controls our thoughts and emotions. If you turn your frustration over to God, and focus your attention on Him instead of your frustration, He will give you relief in mind and emotion. He will also give you a way out or through your frustration.

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What kinds of things frustrate you most? Leave your comments below.