Chapter 48 watch my wife wash the dishes

For a long time, severe stomach problems seriously affected my life.The excruciating pain often kept me from sleeping and woke me up two or three times a night.My father died of stomach cancer and I fear I may get it too, or at least a stomach ulcer. I went to a clinic for a test.A well-known gastrologist gave me a full examination with fluoroscopy and X-rays.He repeatedly emphasized that I did not suffer from stomach cancer or stomach ulcers, and he believed that my stomach pain was entirely caused by mental stress.He gave me some pills, mainly for sleep problems.Then he said to me, "Is the church busy?"

My work is so busy that, in addition to my Sunday sermons and various church activities, I am president of the Red Cross, president of the Kiwanis Club, and preside over two or three funerals a week on average. Excessive work pressure made it impossible for me to relax.Nervous, busy so that I almost to the point where everything is annoying.Emotional tension makes the stomach tremble for a long time, and the pain is unbearable. I accepted the doctor's advice, take a rest every Monday, take the initiative to reduce work pressure and reduce social activities.Once, I was clearing my desk when an idea popped into my mind.I cleared out the pile of sermon notebooks and outdated memos that had accumulated in my drawer, throwing the useless stuff in the wastebasket.Suddenly I stopped and said to myself: "For my troubles, why can't I just pick them up and throw them away like these old things?"

As soon as this idea flashed in my mind, I suddenly felt that the burden on my shoulders was much lighter.From then on, I took it as a rule and threw all the unsolvable problems into the wastebasket. Another time, I was helping my wife wash the dishes in the kitchen, and she was singing while doing the washing.Suddenly I realized another truth: "We have been married for 18 years, and she has washed the dishes for 18 years. If she saw the dishes piled up during this period that could fill a barn, He would run away in fright.” I said to myself: "The reason why my wife doesn't suffer from washing the dishes is because she only washes the dishes for one day at a time." I finally found my crux. I also want to wash the used dishes together.

I found myself really stupid, and I was so ashamed that every Sunday morning, I stood on the stage and told others how to live a meaningful life, while I was always tense, busy, and worried. Worry no longer bothers me, I no longer suffer from insomnia, no more stomach pains.I crumpled up today's and yesterday's anxieties and tossed them all in the wastebasket, and stopped trying to clean tomorrow's dishes today. Remember this saying: "Tomorrow's worries, yesterday's worries, and today's worries add up to the heaviest burden."