Its absolutely impossible to praise God and be stressed at the same time. Our lives were simply not meant to have too much of anything in it. Remember, God is not the author of stress (otherwise known as confusion and chaos) (1 Corinthians 14:33, NIV) – that’s the devil’s work. Sometimes we simply have to pull back and say “no” to people, events, tasks, and even ourselves. Stress is God’s way of grabbing our attention. it will make everything just a little bit better.Instead of propelling us to do more, it should prompt us to stop and spend time with Him. stop and say (in your Whitley Gilbert voice) Relax, Relate, Release. Fix it Jesus and just Release.Īs we close out the year and start to look back at all of the things that we have lost, things that didn't go as planned or could have been better. yeah right but going forward I hope to quiet that negative voice and listen just a bit closer to the one that says. The best part of being a Christian is knowing that I can eat a great meal and never worry about the bill. having kids has taught me that someone is always watching and listening to how I act and respond to things. I can't control the weather, economy and apparently election outcomes (shade) but what I can control are my words, my attitude, my thoughts and my actions. I will probably spend the entire 2017 trying to get this right. LET IT GO!!!As a closet control freak, this one scares me the most. I am going to make time to see friends and make relationships a bit more real than Facebook, Instagram and text messages. I am going to stop rushing my babies to eat their food and get to bed so that I can log back on to my laptop and work some more. but going forward, I want to put the phone down and enjoy the people that are with me. I still need healing in this space (y'all pray for me saints). Time spent, liking and writing back LOL to things that I really didn't think was that funny. I started to argue with him until I realized that I had spent an hour scrolling and now had no time left to spend with the kids before bed. RELATE: Confession - last week, my husband called me out and said. ![]() tell my family that I loved them, laugh as loud as I could and just Relax. would I stay mad at that person, stress about that last email or think about that one thing that I just can't fix. If I knew that tomorrow would be my last day. Many of which were friends that were my age that just died suddenly. People that I thought would live forever. As I scrolled through my Facebook friends list the other day, I realized that this year alone I have lost many friends and family members. ![]() RELAX: Nothing.Absolutely Nothing, is THAT serious. I realized that although this was meant to be funny, it was a great message that I needed to try to adopt. This made me think of the episode where Whitley Gilbert was trying to learn how to Relax, Relate and Release. Finally, Nathan (my son) came up to me and said Mommy I hope that you have a good time on your trip and have fun. All things that I obviously have no control over but drove myself crazy thinking about them. ![]() will the Buckeyes and the Gators win on Saturday. would the kids eat their vegetables, will they fight, with they give my mother-in-law a hard time, would I be able to get all of my work done and of course. As I packed I found myself panicking about the vacation and all of the work that I would come back to next weekend. That's right a vacation without the kids (gasp). After 4 years of running at an "All Out" pace, my husband and I have finally decided to take a 5 day vacation to take break from it all.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |