Having my late cup of coffee with Jesus this morning, I guess He slept in, or maybe that was me!  Either way, we are both here!  So, I was thinking, do you ever wonder what belongs to you and what belongs to others?  I wonder why we spend so much time taking care of what belongs to other people.  It could be another person’s addiction, or problems, or feelings, or negative behavior.  It all belongs to them and yet sometimes we try to own it.

People’s behaviors are their own, their hopes and dreams are their own, their lies and deceptions are their own, but so often we want to become their “office manager.”  It is not the job that GOD assigned to us.  We must become our own LIFE managers, not everyone else’s.  We have enough of our own issues and problems ourselves, and we need to own them.  We need to take care of them ourselves. 

Today, let us work on a clear sense of what belongs to us and let others handle what belongs to them.  Today, I will deal with only myself, my issues, and my responsibilities, and I will take my hands off what is not mine.  I do this, believing and trusting that God cannot work when I am interfering in someone else’s life.

So, I am really excited today!  I only have to handle my own stuff!  Oops, look at that big pile over there…I think it’s mine! 

Have a blessed day, managing your own life!