"A relaxed attitude lengthens a man's life." Solomon (Proverbs 14:30)

I remember reading about a small bridge in a rural area. It's load limit was ten tons. It served its community very well for thirty years until a twelve-ton truck tried to cross it. The added stress was beyond the bridge's capacity to handle. It collapsed under the extra load.

We're all like that.

Each of us has a limit as to how much stress we can handle before we break. It is well documented that too much stress is a killer. Thus we all need to know just how much we can handle and learn to limit the load we carry.

However, while my load limit may be ten or fifteen tons, if I'm not flexible and be able to bend with the flow, I will collapse and break well below my load limit. Besides limiting the load we take on, as the Bible taught three thousand years ago, we need to learn how to have a relaxed attitude and be flexible in the midst of our stressful and pressured lives.

While it isn't easy, in a nutshell we need to limit the load we attempt to carry, eat right, exercise regularly, work hard but take time to relax, laugh a lot, cry when we are sad, never bottle up negative emotions but learn to express them in healthy ways, and "let love be our highest aim."

And above all, we need to learn to commit and trust our life to God every day! "

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, help me in the midst of my pressured and stressful life to work on my growth and maturity, learn to limit my load limit and above all learn to love others, myself and you more fully and trust you implicitly for every area of my life.

Gracefully in Jesus' name. Amen."

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