Emotional poise

Gaining Emotional Poise -Remember the Hourglass – Extracts from s sermon by Dr James G Gilkey

“Most of us think of ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the centre of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyances and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us .At every moment we have a dozen different things to do , a dozen problems to solve , a dozen strains to endure . We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired.

This is a common mental picture – and it is totally false !No one of us , however crowded his life , has such an existence .

What is the true picture of life? Imagine that there is an hourglass on your desk. Connecting the bowl on top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time .

That is the true picture of your life even on a super busy day. The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way that they can come. The day may bring many tasks , many problems, strains , but invariably they come in single file

You want to gain Emotional Poise ? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one ……….. “