Would You Just STOP?????

 Have you ever wanted to grab someone by the hair, swing them around a little and then scream into their face, "WOULD YOU JUST KNOCK IT OFF?"

Asking for a friend.

It's probably the holidays and the stress and the grief that is inevitable and blah blah blah but I have almost zero tolerance for folderol right now.

My back and hip hurt, I am stuffed up and it's too cold outside for me to walk the dogs more than ten minutes at a time.  I am grumpy and out of sorts.  People are sooooooo stupid right now.  WHO CARES about what Candace Owens says - the woman is rich and crazy!  STOP trying to champion MTG - she still thinks Jews power Space Lasers that cause forest fires.  Charlie Kirk is NOT ever going to be canonized by the Catholic Church!  Men wearing artful make up and wearing a dress are NOT women and do not belong on women's sports teams or in women's locker rooms - and other men should stop making them feel UNSAFE if they change their clothes and shower where they are supposed to change their clothes and shower!  Your part of Italy is not better or more authentic that the part MY people live in and the color of your skin does NOT automatically assign you ANYTHING in terms of character.  JUST STOP IT.

It's like that great line from Moonstruck - SNAP OUT OF IT!

Okay, okay...enough.  Why do I feel like this?  Eh....a variety of reasons.  More importantly, what do I do with these feelings?  How do I act despite these feelings?  Where do I take my inner turmoil for relief?

The easy answer is God.  The 'how' is through prayer and ACTION.

Or maybe....INaction.

I do not roll my eyes when someone talks, I smile when I want to cry and I do not make snarky mean remarks even though the remarks I could make would be SOOOOOOO funny.  They might make people laugh, but they are barbed and nasty and why would I want even my enemies to feel like I feel right now?

Neither do I pretend with God or the persons in my life who really count that I am just fine, doncha know...don't you worry about me, by golly...I is PErFeCT.  Nope.  Tell the truth and shame the devil.

I BEG God in prayer to redirect my thinking, give me the grace I need for right action and (most importantly) I lean into the Sacramental Liturgical Life offered to me by Holy Mother Church.  Confession, Adoration in the middle of the night when I wake up in tears missing...well....EVERYBODY, the Eucharist.  I remember that I do have a purpose here on earth because if I did not have one God would bring me home.  I trust in Him. He does have my back and He does know what is good for me.  And I keep going 'no matter what'.

I write a gratitude list every day because I KNOW I have much for which to be grateful.  I am much happier that I feel, really, because I understand that emotions are not necessarily wrong but neither are they necessarily the truth.  

You, the people who read my little blog, help me when you reach out.  I am so grateful.  My dogs are healthy, I have great friends around me.....this too shall pass.

Lord, forgive my grumpiness.  Lord, thank You for all You have provided for me.  Let me be a Channel of THY peace today.

As for the rest of ya?

KNOCK IT OFF.