This week on Made for This we are talking about being obsessive in the midst of no control this year.

It feels like over anything a lot of us get really controlling and so we're going to talk about it today.

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Count it all joy my brothers when you meet trials of various kinds for you know

that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness and let steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to all without reproach and it will be given him.

But let him ask in faith with no doubting for the one who doubts is like a wave of the

sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord

he is a double-minded man unstable in all his ways James 1 2 through 8 I believe that this is such an important issue because our brains are hardwired

to solve problems. So when we get in the midst of 2020 where there's 8 million

problems and it feels like

there's no end to the problems our brain's working really hard on overdrive to

try to solve it all to try to figure out what is it and how do I get out of this

mess and how do I fix it and how do I make it right again.

And so what happens is we become obsessive and guys this one's so convicting for me.

I actually thought when I was going to teach this one that you know what I'm not that bad at that and then I started

noticing What I do to cope and one of my coping we've talked about coping here before one of my coping strategies is to get my car cleaned. I know that

sounds like a healthy coping strategy but the reality is it is a controlling thing. I love my car clean. Now let me tell you how this moves from healthy, good to have a car clean, to unhealthy, psycho about having a car clean.

I have four kids and two of them are at college yes but

they come home a lot. So my daughter comes home plenty. She came home a few weeks

ago and I had just had my car clean and my car is always pretty clean because everybody knows I don't keep my life clean like my house isn't always clean but my cars almost always clean and I think it's that it's a domain I can control and keep clean even though I have four kids

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