Overthinking.

Most of the time this tends to get me into trouble more than anything.
Maybe you feel like you're in the same boat.
I've often been told that I like to overthink things. Well, that's the thing. I don't like to do it. I just do it. I can't help that that's the way my brain tends to function. Sometimes when I overthink things people call me stupid. I don't like that because nobody deserves to be called stupid in a rude kind of way. I can't help that when others go the easy way I have to learn things the hard way. I can't help that I naturally tend to learn things a different way than you do. When someone says something it can take me to an entire new level of thinking. Most of the time I like it quiet and I like to be alone because I can just think. I can think about life and what it means and what God does in life.
Some days thinking can get me into a lot of trouble. For instance what is happening now. I can wake up and do my usual routine and live out the Christian life that God has called me to live while overthinking things, but unless my thoughts are grounded by the word which I'm suppose to root myself in every single day, then they're useless. When my thoughts are transformed by the renewing of my mind in Christ then that's what my thoughts begin to glorify him and become useful. And when my thoughts are glorifying him, everything else will fall into place.

I play the piano and had a hard time reading because I would overthink the chord charts and would want to fit in whatever works just so that it would work and sound good. But the exact chords that are written on the page have to be played before you can add the creativity, because that's where the foundation lies. I look at this as a metaphor for how we have to stay founded on the word rather than just working in whatever works. We have to mediate on the word so much that it's rooted in us. If not, then how will we be able to live out in all of the other possibilities that he has called us to? How will things fall into place if we aren't rooted in God's living words?