Usually when we have an issue we pickup our phones to vent, rant or simply talk about it with someone we trust. Sometimes we talk so much about that problem we become so consumed with getting back at that person who caused us anguish and pain that we forget one very important detail; most of the time that person we confide in isn't able to help us, but still we find great comfort in making them our rock in times of need.
It's pretty comfy until they may get tired of us. I mean. Many times we talk about the same problem over and over and over again that it becomes so repetitious that our listening ear knows just what we are coming with next. It could be that we come to them to talk about our nagging boss, lying boyfriend, or just a mean friend. Give and take we talk about that one thing at least 10 times a month and I mean, ten times in one month about the same thing, especially a thing that we have the power to change in many cases is a lot of times. Worst yet, what about when you share your inner most deepest issues with a friend and they break your trust by telling someone else?
I have be thrown into the guilty parentheses of always having a problem. Always running to others to complain or worse yet, confronting that individual who I may assume is the problem. I realized that all it just does is make you look like the one with a problem and no solutions. A dead weight. Gloomy and dull with their burdens laying wait.
I have come to find comfort in something better than a friend or listening ear here on earth. I have come to know that there is a Saviour who knows all our burdens, but He just wants us to forget about everything else and come to Him for he has the gift of everlasting peace. So when a friend may become tired of listening or that problem that seemed to have presented itself occurs, you have been given the chance to go on bent knees to the God of Heaven and Earth who takes no sides, spreads no rumors, never gets tired of listening, but who only comforts.
I have learned to pray about my problems, instead of talking about them and this assurance has been giving me ultimate peace. Now I am no longer a burden to a listening ear, but a refuge for those who are dear.
