Leave it Alone

Did you ever wonder if the alterative to "walk it off" was coming? Well here it is.

Becuase some emotional pains are like a bruised muscle that need to be worked out, but some are like a sore tooth that just need to be left alone so they can heal. Revisiting these pains, these thoughts, is not a good thing. There are areas of even our own mind that we should try to stay out of.

Andy Stanley calls these emotions "Tojan Horses." The Trojan Horse being the gift the Greeks left outside of Troy full of soldiers so they could take the city once brought inside.

We have Trjon Horses of the heart. They are gifts left for us by everyone who has ever hurt us, from everyone who has ever wronged us. And the gift is OURS by right. By enduring those hurts we have earned that "horse."

But inside, instead of a host of angry Greeks, we find bitterness and resentment. We find anger and self doubt and either the lust for revenge or the helpless feeling that we deserve what happened to us. And the danger is ours if we accept this gift and bring it into the city of our hearts.

So sometimes it's not a healthy thing to spiral down and down into even deeper levels of introspection. Some things should be examined once and then tossed aside, becuase we don't want to own every emotion that comes our way. If you have a Trojan Horse sitting outside the gates of your heart, leave it alone...or set fire to it.