I am sitting here with a dear friend Pastor Steven ferdi and I want to make a confession are you ready for my confession I don’t know I feel like we’re sitting on the psychologist couch right now you’re leaning in and I’m like here we go tell me everything so my confession is I definitely struggle with overthinking I get my thoughts caught on a loop and what’s so hard for me is I’ll have a thought I don’t even see the thought coming it just hits me and or it’s from a conversation that somebody has and then I start overthinking what
was really meant by that conversation I mean it can happen in so many different ways but then my thoughts get caught on a loop and I can’t quite get out of the loop and often times that Loop is taking me in a negative Direction so does this ever happen to you does it ever happen to me like even while we’re talking right now it’s it’s it’s a it’s a loop in my head right now tell me the loop uh the loop goes like this um don’t talk too much um you’re going to say the wrong thing um you’re not going to connect with the audience um you’re
going to disappoint Lisa say she wants the interview to go good today you’re not going to hit the standard that she wants for it you’re going to give bad advice you’re not going to be able to remember your best stuff and the thing about those Loops are they feel true to you and over time you begin to call what whatever you Loop the most your truth and and there’s this saying in culture that we use and I don’t know if it’s a good saying we say Live Your Truth and I’m for that if your truth is I’m a Child of God called by him to do things
in his name for his glory and I can do everything he calls me to do then live your truth because that’s God’s truth but sometimes what you call your truth really is a trap or as you call it a loop and those Loops can become traps because they can actually sound real because they’re in your own voice so it’s you talking to you so then you assume well if I’m hearing this inside of myself it must be me so how do I get free from something that I think is me because I’m stuck with me that’s what’s so confusing about the loop whether it’s
