Best Spinning Your Wheels Poems
When you focus on things beyond your control
Is like dishing up heap of frustration in a large bowl
Pacing back and forth biting your nails
Depression takes the wind right out of your sails
Stress becomes your new best friend
Swimming with anxiety in the deep end
Your mind and body are weak and frail
You feel you are living in the depths of hell
Trying to save the world when nobody cares
Leaves you shaking your head fully aware
You are the one who is spinning your wheels
While they wonder Hmmm what’s the big deal?
So listen to my words and take heed
Ask God to help you to plant the seed
For them to feel the truth of conviction
To turn around and flee from their addictions
And don’t forget to set your focus where it belongs
For only Jesus has the power to right the wrong.
You will find when you give them to the Lord
It releases the pressure and peace is your reward.
It's insanity, for all is vanity;
It's like spinning your wheels, going nowhere fast.
Getting caught up in things that will not last.
Building your hopes upon the sand;
Wasting your time on an already foiled plan.
One that is ruined before it gets off the ground.
Build your hopes on something sound.
In Jesus Christ there is righteousness;
And upon His bosom you can rest.
The thing that has been is that it shall be,
And an ear never wearies of hearing and an eye of all is shall see and see.
A sea is not full of the rivers that flow,
And a man full of knowledge will still need to know.
More about Jesus and His mission on earth,
And what to the man the mission is worth.
Life everlasting...it's simple and plain,
So let not your living be in vain.
Ecclesiastes - Chapter 1
Perhaps your life's plan was all mapped out for you from the start,
but I knew little to nothing about being a husband until I became one.
By that time, there is very little time to learn before confusion sets in.
"Honey, I have the snow skies and the credit cards, but we have to go back
because (are you ready for this?) it's snowing and I forgot to bring the tire chains."; "I never heard that..."; "I thought you said..."; "You spent how much at Macy's?"; "What do you mean I can't watch that TV show? You got to be kidding."; "You knew from the start that I was a sports fanatic. You can't be serious."; And on and on it goes.
Confusion is like being stuck in the mud where it's hard to get out alone. By the time you are humble enough to ask for help, you are deeper still. You don't realize it, but you are mimicking what you have seen growing up. For example, my wife had never met my father because he died long before we even met. One day I was sharing with her about my father and his weaker traits. I was none too happy when she said to me, "You are just like him". I didn't like her comment, but it was true none the less.
When we begin to realize the truth about mom and dad, we are more prone to live in denial because we thought we were smarter than they. But then we begin to understand that it's not about what we know or don't know, because there are so many variables and opposing forces stacked against our success that you may not have created, but when you notice them, there is no time for crying over spilled milk, and we have to be quick to learn that whining and spinning your wheels in the mud only deepen the hole.
We learn sooner or later that our odds of succeeding are fifty-fifty at best. Those are not good odds but we battle through the mind fields anyway because we are tough and not a quitter, and we are determined to never part company till but death parts the two of us.
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Be smart...
stop trying to act smart
Be alive...
stop talking about life
Make a decision...
stop fearing the possible outcomes
Pick a direction...
—stop spinning your wheels in space
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)