Being Thankful While Trying Too Find Your Tail…
Are You Eeyore?
Author: Pat Aman
November 21,2003
We all go through junk! And, maybe I was sheltered as a child, but I never remember hearing the word drama then, as much as I do now.
It seems people live for drama in their lives. Some bring it on themselves and some get it uninvited.
The definition of drama-drama noun
dra·ma | \ ˈdrä-mə
Definition of drama
1 a. literature : a composition in or intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance
b. a movie or television production with characteristics of a serious play broadly : a play, movie, or television production with a serious tone or subject
a police drama
2 literature :art, literature, or affairs
English drama
3 a: a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces
the drama of the past week
dealing with some family drama
b: dramatic state, effect, or quality
the drama of the courtroom proceedings.
Gracious, in reading the definition, I see the words theatrical performance.
Could that be someone trying to get attention, love, and maybe someone who needs friendship, but does not know how to just be themselves.
Maybe something happened in their life that had made them feel low self esteem and they just do not know how to truly be just themselves.
People are under so much pressure to be something they are not capable of being.
When I counsel with these individuals, the first thing I do is get them to love themselves. See, if you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others.
Depression and Anxiety can also cause low self – esteems. And I am afraid to say a lot of our churches look down on people who are depressed, or going through anxiety.
Friends, life happens. Circumstances happens. Hopelessness happens.
Body changes happens.
Hormonal changes happen.
And each of these things not only need prayer, comfort and love for the individual, but sometimes they have to seek medical treatment for depression.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong or bad in seeking medical help.
As fellow Christians we should be building one another up and not looking down on someone who maybe going through depression.
Isaiah 40: 28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles( they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
I myself feel like Eeyore in the Winnie The Pooh Book. I wonder if I can be truly thankful because I have lost my tail. I have lost my way.
I asked you, can you be thankful while trying to find your tail…
Life has become so busy. When it gets too busy, I think a couple of days I lost mine.
Have you ever felt like Eeyore. You know the little gray patched up donkey in the Winnie the Pooh series. They lived in a beautiful 100 acre woods Eeyore use to say, “Is my tail still on?” Then he would say, “let’s have a look, and he turned slowly round to the place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that he couldn’t catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, “I believe you’re right, Pooh, it is still there.”
Sometimes I feel the same way, I feel I have lost my tail, and cannot find it. I think that we sometimes go to that 100 acre woods, a beautiful place, but it becomes our gloomy place just like Eeyore.
When you are in that gloomy place it is hard to give praise and thanks when we feel like Eeyore that we have lost our tail.
Even though Eeyore had great compassion for others, and was always trying to help people, he still at times felt, Oh, poor me. See, he lost his love for life. He some how lost the sense of a positive attitude. His fire had gone out.
In our lives we all at times may think, I am burned out, woe is me.
We still truck along trying to do our best, but we have to continually put patches on our lives just to hold us together.
See, God speaks of this very thing in Revelation chapter two. He tells the church at Ephesus, that He knows all their good deeds, but He is getting a little disappointed in them, because they have lost their first love. “Him.”
Again, I myself sometimes feel tired, even though I keep getting up from being knock down, that my first love is getting depleted from my life. I need to get that fire back, the fire that helps build my faith up. Yes, that is when I need to get down on my knees and look up to God and find my tail.
God promises to give strength to the weary, and I tell you now, I have to stand on that promise.
So, if today, you are feeling like Eeyore, and you have lost your tail, and are sitting in your gloomy place look up to the Heavenly Father.
Yes, get back on your knees, and look up to God and say, “I think you are right God, I still have it together.”
And then begin singing, praising and thanking God and see your life turn around, as we become thankful instead of woe is me.
In others words, you may have to be like Eeyore, turn around, check things out, and see if you may have to let some things go that maybe clouding up your way.
The way God wants you to go. You may as Eeyore, have to get in a downward position on your knees, so God can show you that your tail is still on and your headed in just the way He wants you to go.
You just need to turn around and follow God with Thankfulness and Praise.
For I promise you will find you tail
-your purpose-
Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2019 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals”and WestBow Press a Division of Thomas Nelson Publishers
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