Setting Boundaries

The greatest gift you can give yourself in life is setting boundaries. Life can pull on you in so many ways and as only one person you can only do so much. I tell my husband all the time the ability to say "no" is OK. Sometimes people that love doing for others can get involved in so many things they feel they are stretched in a thousand directions. We have to take a look at our life and pray and ask God what he wants us doing and focus on those things and let the other fall to the side. There is a saying "Don't sweat the small stuff" but really it is all small stuff. I learned a long time ago in ministry that people pleasing will drive you crazy if you let it. You feel like a yoyo going round and round saying OK to everyone. Set the boundaries you know work for you and stick with it and life gets really simple. We can not control what others do but we can control our actions and reactions to it. Today is a new day - let us determine to be God pleasers and be all he wants us to be and the rest will take care of itself.