MANY PEOPLE MAKE life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by dissipating power and energy through fuming and fretting.
REAL PICTURE OF FUME AND FRET
The word “fume” means to boil up, to blow off, to emit vapour. Tobe agitated, to be distraught, to seethe. The word“fret” is equally descriptive.It ceases, only to begin again. It has an irritating,annoying penetrating quality. To fret is a childish term, but it describes the emotional reaction of many adults.
BIBAL ADVICE
The Bible advises us to “Fret not thyself …” (Psalm 37: 1) This is sound
advice for the people of our time. We need to stop fuming and fretting and
get peaceful if we are to have power to live effectively.
HOW TO STOP FUMING AND
FRETTING ?
STEP1: A first step is to reduce your pace or at least the tempo of
your pace.
We do not realize how accelerated the rate of our lives has become, or
the speed at which we are driving ourselves. Many people are
destroying their physical bodies by this pace, but what is even more
tragic, they are tearing their minds and souls to shreds as well.
The character of our thoughts determines pace. When the mind
goes rushing on pell-mell from one feverish attitude to another it
becomes feverish and the result is a state bordering on petulance.
The pace of modern life must be reduced if we are not to suffer profoundly
from its debilitating over-stimulation and super-excitement.
The over-stimulation produces toxic poisons in the body and creates emotional illness. It produces fatigue and a sense of frustration so that we fume and fret about everything from our personal troubles to the state of the nation and the world.
HOW TO HAVE PEACE OF SOUL?
It is impossible to have peace of soul if the pace is so feverishly accelerated. God won‟t go that fast. He will not endeavor to keep up with you. He says in effect, “Go ahead if you must with this foolish pace and when you are worn out I will offer my healing. But I can make your life so rich if you will slow down now and live and move and have your being in me.”
God moves imperturbably, slowly, and with perfect organization. The only wise rate at which to live is God‟s rate. God gets things done and they are done right and He does them without hurry. He neither fumes nor frets. He is peaceful and therefore efficient. This same peace is offered to us—“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you …” (John 14:27)
AUTHOR’S EXPERIENCE IN THE WOODS ABOUT NATURE MUSIC
Author says that “ One afternoon as we walked there was a mixture of summer showers and sunlit hours. We were drenched and started to fret about it a bit because it took the press out of our clothes.
Then we told each other that it doesn‟t hurt a human being to get drenched with clean rain water, that the rain feels cool and fresh on one‟s face, and that you can always sit in the sun and dry yourself out.
We walked under the trees and talked and then fell silent. We were listening, listening deeply to the quietness.
In a strict sense, the woods are never still. There is tremendous activity always in process, but nature makes no strident noises regardless of the vastness of its operation. Nature‟s sounds are quiet, harmonious. On this beautiful afternoon, nature was laying its hand of healing quietness upon us, and we could actually feel the tension being drawn off.
Just as we were falling under this spell, the faint sounds of what passes for music came to us. It was nervous, high-strung music of the jitterbug variety. Presently through the woods came three young people, two young women and a young man, and the latter was lugging a portable radio.
They were three young city people out for a walk in the woods and tragically enough were bringing their noise along with them. They were nice young folk, too, for they stopped and we had a pleasant talk with them. It occurred to me to ask them to turn that thing off and listen to the music of the woods, but I didn‟t feel it was my business to instruct them, and finally they went on their way.
We commented on the loss they were incurring, that they could pass through this peacefulness and not give ear to the music that is as old as the world, harmony and melody the like of which man has never equaled: the song of the wind through the trees, the sweet notes of birds singing their hearts out, the whole back-ground of the music of the spheres.”
Author then writes that “Nature harmonious music can still to be found
in America in our woods and great plains, in our valleys, in our mountain majesties, and where the ocean foams on soft shores of sand. We should avail ourselves of its healing. Remember the words of Jesus, “Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile.” (Mark 6:31)
Conclusion:
•MANY PEOPLE MAKE life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by dissipating power and energy through fuming and fretting.
•We need to stop fuming and fretting and get peaceful if we are to have power to live effectively.
• The pace of modern life must be reduced if we are not to suffer profoundly from its debilitating over-stimulation and super-excitement.
• The only wise rate at which to live is God‟s rate.
Source:
Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
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