What Are You Trying to Avoid?

• By candidasullivan
• June 2, 2026
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What are you trying to avoid? 

In such a fast-paced world, it’s easy to become self-centered and focus only on what we need in the moment. Sometimes, we get so busy that we can’t see the pain all around us. That’s intentional.

The enemy wants us to rush from one moment to the next. He tries to make us so busy that we don’t have time to notice anyone else’s struggles. The busier we become, the more we feel like we are drowning. 

That’s because we have created waves with our whirlwind schedule and the pain we refuse to acknowledge. Imagine it for a moment. Being in the water with the waves crashing into us constantly. It’s hard in that situation to keep our heads above water or to see anything beyond the waves. 

In the next image, slow it all down. Imagine being in peaceful water, with a gentle rhythm of relaxation. In that situation, there’s time to breathe and enjoy the beauty all around us. We can ask God to help us see our situation with clarity and overcome it. 

Sweet friends, we have to deliberately choose to slow down our lives. To step out of survival mode and choose to truly live and enjoy our lives. It’s not doing more but being more aware. 

I remember going as fast as I could on autopilot. I have years of my life that I don’t remember because I didn’t live them, I just survived them. I stayed so busy because I didn’t want to acknowledge or feel the pain in my life. It was easier to stay exhausted and busy than to feel all of the pain inside me. 

During one of the most painful moments of my life, I lay on the floor because I didn’t have the strength to get up. I scrolled social media and the internet, looking for someone to help me. I needed to know that someone else had been in my situation before and had overcome it. 

I can’t even put into words what someone else’s testimony meant to me in that moment. I was suffering, and God used him to bring me comfort and hope. That hope helped me get off the floor and keep going. It reminded me that my situation was not permanent and that God still had a plan for my life.

To heal, we have to feel. 

We can ignore our problems and even try to outrun them. But all that does is make us hurt worse. When we slow down and sit with God in prayer, He can help us feel every ounce of pain and heal from it. 

God understands the prayers we don’t know how to express.

He sees our situation. 

And He knows how to help us overcome it all. 

One day, our testimony of overcoming could be someone else’s lifeline. 

Romans 12:12 KJV

12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;