What if I said yes? This is the daily disturbance podcast with Anthony Fungini. What is no? Jeanette Wintersen asked.
Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the yes. So Solana sees a particular favorite on the dining table and takes a bit more of the food than she normally can consume in the minutes after. Can you get some of mine?
I must admit, I wish it was always that easy, right? To help my kid manage the consequence of taking in more than he or she can chew. But then it worked, right? When she realized she committed more than she could actually consume, she simply acknowledged it and pleaded for help.
I recall way back in high school, backing out of a decision to pursue a girl, to court a girl, while the process was already in the advanced stage. Oh my, I don't know if I was suddenly unsure. Come on, many of you have gone through this. Or if fear of rejection had crept in.
Or was it pride? As I found myself more vulnerable than ever before. I have to admit, I should have done what Solana did, simply acknowledge it and plead for help. I acknowledge it for sure to her.
You got low. I mean, goodness. How could I have asked her for help when I told her, can I back out or pursuing you? I should have had mentors instead, right?
To admit my situation, acknowledge it and seek counseling guidance. But at that time, not yet. Well, perhaps the following set of guidelines can better help us. When we again find ourselves having said yes to something and needing to take it back, I said better help us, okay?
Because honestly, today is the first time I'm putting this together. And I realize I need it as much as anyone else. This is for us. Let's help each other correct such situations when we find ourselves having said yes, but now want to take it back.
First, come clean, see. Apologize when you realize you need to step back from having given an initial yes, come clean. Next, open yourself. Oh, to forgiveness and reconciliation.
You need to, you need to accept it. Turn that weight into a wing. Third, repair R, what you can offer your identical twin. If you can't swap to a friend's schedule graduation or offer you to pay the bill, right?
Do something, repair. Another R, it's correct, I'm hoping you got this by now. Reflect on why you said yes. When perhaps it was more appropriate to say no.
Reflections can lead to realizations. C-O-R-R-E embrace the consequences. In other words, sorry, take the ship. Perhaps more than a few people are upset that you said no when you eventually said yes.
Correct, see, choose to stay positive. Once you've apologized it, admitted it, confessed it, willing to repent from it, you gotta claim Romans 828. All things work for the good for those who love God and are called according to his person. All things work for the good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.
All things, whether it's good or ugly, even your mistakes, even those yeses that you now have to turn your back to. Don't stay in the gutter. Get over it, get up, get going. And finally, take the place of the person, T, or perhaps an entire community that you disappointed.
Gotta be mindful, gotta empathize, humble, thyself. It's the least you can do. C-O-R-R-E, CT, correct, thyself, and carry on. Craig, last row, and I quote, if we are saying no to God, have we considered what we are saying, yes to?