Fed up

[Disench4nted]

This is nothing real big or anything but any prayers you could offer up for me would be great. The past about 2 weeks have been absurd. I have hardly had any time, I've had NO motivation to do anything other than play soccer (that includes gaming....very strange; i had a few spare minuted but the Xbox just wasn't calling my name ), and I've just been fed up with most everything and been irrationally angry WAY too often lately.

School is simply making me angry, which is honestly extremely absurd....lots of work has never really bothered me before, i don't see what the big deal is.

My home life is getting progressively worse, i'm trying to respect my parents these last months before i leave for college but am finding it increasingly difficult, we have been yelling more often than not lately and needless to say that isn't the way it ought to be!

The biggest thing that has been getting to me is simply a total lack of motivation lately, from something as small as moving my clean clothes from the dryer to my room, to things like studying for tests i know i'm not prepared for or putting forth the effort into my relationship with my parents that i know is essential. Even gaming hasn't had much appeal for the last week or so!! And that is something i REALLY don't understand!

But looking on the bright side, soccer has started and (as always) i feel at home and at peace when I'm on the turf, and some of my buddies and I have been makin some music lately and i enjoy that!

So i guess really just pray that I'll get my head out of the ground and start being more productive (not too productive mind you! ).

[shadowsbane]

I'll keep you in my prayers for sure!

[whitewarrior]

Will be praying for ya bro. Hang in there.

[MOOSE]

ill pray for you! i have been there, too . Let God fill you with love that pours out on everyone you are in contact with!

[HangGlyder]

I'm like that during the winter months, dark out when I go to work in the morning and dark again by the time I get home.

Praying for you!

Hang.

[HercDriver86]

Disench4nted,

I am praying for you and ask you to pray for me too.

It sounds like you got alot of stuff going on and coming up in your life.

Many times we have so much stuff happening that we can get overwhelmed and dont know where to start or what to do. I have so much stuff going on in my life it is hard to figure out where to start and I just sit there spinning my wheels and not getting anything done. Because of this, we can lose any motivation to really do anything.

I need God to help me prioritize what I need to do, to help me focus on His will and concentrate on what he wants me to do.

I would ask you to read John 15. This talks about fruit of the vine. One of the keys verse is John 15:2. He talks about pruning branches that bear no fruit. Perhaps this is what God is doing in your life, removing the desire to the things that bear no fruit so that you can focus on the things that He wants you to do.

Mark 5 is another good set of verses to read that might help you reconnect with God's will.

I am praying that God will comfort you and guide you and that you will focus on Him and what he wants you to do. I am also praying that God will strengthen your relationship with your parents and use you to renew the loving spirit in your family.

In Christ...

[Disench4nted]

Thank you hercdriver...and everyone!
The John verses probably do apply here and I know what i need to be doing. Im just not doing it. But after this week one of my big commitments will be over and I should have some time just to relax and focus on getting in the right place as opposed to racing from place to place to place all the time.

Ill be praying for you to Driver, and once again...thanks all!

[Cuda]

We will cover you with prayer.

The encouraging thing is you recognize the problem. I believe we all go through similar times as we go through life. (Right now I SHOULD be in the basement finishing some drywall.) Part of maturity is seeing and then doing what needs to be done despite our personal wants and desires. Not doing that caused a lot of strain on my relationship with my father when I was your age. Only when I put others desires before my own and repressed my own selfishness did I find peace.