I am a highly sensitive person: everything is louder, brighter, hotter, colder, or more fragrant (or stinky - depending on the source of the odor) to me. I didn't choose this. It's just how my brain is wired. My family gets frustrated with me when we go out to eat because restaurants, malls, and grocery stores blast music all the time. It's obnoxious. And intolerable. I carry earplugs, and try to choose places that don't crank the tunes - music which is usually appealing to a demographic 20-40 years younger than the people I see shopping around me.
So I was thinking about this the other day. Since I can't stop being highly sensitive, I was wondering whether God would use this trait in me. If He doesn't change it, it must be because He wants me to be this way. And if He wants me to be this way, then I have to give it all to Him to use for His glory. I don't have any idea what that would look like: I'm not going to start sniffing luggage at the airport - hey, dogs have to work too!
If the way I am is so difficult for me, and it is, my only choices are to pray that God will change me or that He will use my sensitivity for His glory! I can't wait to see which He chooses!
About Me
- jmrs1010
- I am a fiscally and socially conservative Christian who gets frustrated with the world, and my place in it, and wants to talk about it.
