Emotional Tipping Points

Emotional Tipping Points

You wake up with a headache and discover a bad plumbing problem in the bathroom- the geyser's broken. As you drive to work, the car engine heats up. You get out of your car and open the bonnet to check what could be wrong. As you look inside, your spectacles fall off and are broken. Now you can hardly see and your phone starts ringing. Your franchiser instructs you to suspend business operations forthwith. Meanwhile, unpaid school fees for your kids are due that morning. As if not enough, your father living eight hundred kilometers away calls. He says its time for him to die so as not to burden you further. You politely begin to assure him that he is not a bother, but he cuts off the call and his phone becomes unreachable. Frustrated and annoyed by life, you stand there virtually blind when a good Samaritan from a far culture arrives. When he mispronounces your African name, that is the last straw. You do not care that he is saying a word in your language for the first time. With great fury, you blow up and appear to be the most unthankful, violent, impatient, and arrogant person on earth.

Simply put, do not underestimate the power of little things. It is of utter most importance to deal completely with negative experiences in your past or else, they will build up for long enough that you respond irrationally to the smallest things that go wrong. Little things can become last step catalysts to 'insane' behavior that can cause emotional heartache and broken relationships. Remember that at ninety-nine degrees Celsius water is very hot yet just a degree higher it starts to boil. One drop to a cupful can result in a spill. Little things of life marginally add to an accumulation of life experiences and consequences. Do little things destabilize you? They often are not the real issues; check how you have reached your emotional tipping point. Promptly cast your cares and worries upon God for He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7).