Ever get all worked up about something silly? It doesn’t seem silly at the time, it seems really, really, really, important! Ever throw all your energy into your frustration , start texting your friends, and complaning to anyone who will listen only to look back later and realize that maybe it wasn’t that big of a deal?

We’ve made so many things important in our lives these days. Ten years ago owning a cell phone that you could watch tv on was not a priority. Yet when it goes out of service for a second we start beating it against the desk. TV’s that were box shaped were still A-OK in everyone’s book and no one spent all day envying those who could afford a flat one. These days it seems everything has to be smaller, faster, easier and work ON DEMAND. Anything less and we are fully in our right to get upset and complain and cause a big scene. Right?

All these stresses in our lives… we’ve created. We’ve made them important. We’ve made the them focus of how our lives work.

Simplify.

That doesn’t necessarily mean do without. Just simplify your thoughts. Spend your “thinking energy” on more positive things. Ease the stress in your life by giving the supericial things in life less priority time in your mind and put the “big picture” ones in the forefront.

“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (Phillipians 4:8)

Spend your days focused on the these thoughts and see if your day doesn’t seem a little more simple and filled with a lot more praise!