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If You Feel Like You’re Free Falling

July 23, 2019
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| Categories: Fear, Stress, Uncategorized, Worry

Do you ever feel like you’re free falling?

If you’re a thrill seeker, maybe that doesn’t sound so bad. For me, the feeling doesn’t make me excited or happy. The feeling makes me want to run away, hide, or quit.

If you are contemplating quitting, hiding, or running away, I want to enourage you today!

I felt like I was free falling right through 2018 and into 2019 like a helpless eaglet slipping out of her nest. I knew that I had to trust that the Lord’s everlasting arms were underneath me instead…

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Overcoming Overwhelm: Giving the Omnipresent Lord All of Life – Week 1 of 8

January 11, 2019
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Spiritual Growth, Stress, Thinking, Uncategorized, Worry, Yielding and Waiting

This past year my family moved out of the house I’d lived in longer than any other house. We were moving into an old farmhouse that we were rehabbing ourselves. It was a challenging process both physically and mentally. As I considered all of the things I’d miss about the home I’d brought my babies up in, I wondered what I could take with me. Was there a piece of my past that could somehow satisfy my heart in the future? I remembered that each year in late winter and early…

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Seeking the Savior in the Stress – Week 8 – Being Confident In Who & Whose You Are

April 23, 2018
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| Categories: Stress

 

There was a time in my life when I felt a heavy burden and great stress about what I was and wasn’t doing. At that time, I was a baby Christian with a poor understanding of the realities of who I was in Christ and how God made me. Each time a good activity or ministry came my way, I felt I had to take part in it even if I didn’t really have the time and energy. I even gave myself to some things I may have had…

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Seeking the Savior in the Stress – Week 7 – The Profound Impact of Our Own Words

April 16, 2018
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| Categories: Self Speak, Stress

The kids and I sprawled out on the partly shaded trampoline with our books. The gentle, spring wind blew magnolia petals onto us. The sunshine and perfect, sixty-five-degree temperature were just too much for them, though. Every time I attempted to move us toward our homeschool lessons, they giggled or tried to insert a joke. Once again, I had tried to create a great school memory but feelings of failure were creeping in.

My husband, though a ways away, could sense that I was getting frustrated in getting nowhere with…

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Coaching Your Loved Ones Through an Attitude

April 9, 2018
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| Categories: Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse

I’ve recently changed how I’m posting on my blog. Starting this week, I’m going to start writing at least one additional article each week. As usual, I’ll write a post on helping ourselves turn toward gospel-centered thinking under the “Coach Yourself” area of the blog. I’ll also write an additional post on the same theme under the “Coach Your Loved Ones” area of the blog. This article will be meant to inspire you to think through how to coach your family and friends in turning to Jesus as they…

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Seeking the Savior in the Stress – Week 5 – Casting Cares on Jesus

March 20, 2018
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| Categories: Stress, Uncategorized, Worry

Does this passage resonate with you?

“Blessed be the Lord!
    For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to him.” -Psalm 28:6-7

Me too!

I can say that no matter how you answered that question, it resonates with me too.

You see, many times I cry out to Him and I sense…

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Seeking the Savior in the Stress – Week 3 – Lower Your Stress Level by Re-framing Life with Gospel Informed Expectations

March 6, 2018
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| Categories: Stress

According to the American Psychological Association, chronic stress can be linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. And more than 75 percent of all physician office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints.

That sounds really disheartening, but let me give you some encouragement!

Not all stress has to be endured. While we do have stressors in our lives that are out of our control, we also have plenty that is well within our control. Self-induced stress might be the easiest kind…

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Seeking the Savior in the Stress – Week 2 – Destroying Damaging Thinking Patterns with Jesus

February 26, 2018
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| Categories: Stress, Thinking

I have dream that one day all of our thinking patterns that are damaging to ourselves, our loved ones, our relationship with the world around us and to God will be obliterated!
Thankfully, I know that this will happen!
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” -Revelation 21:4
Andrew Peterson’s song, “After the Last Tear,” reminds me of all that I look forward to when sin, sickness,…

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Seeking the Savior in the Stress Series – Week 1 -Praying Over Ingrained Responses to Life Stressors

February 19, 2018
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| Categories: Stress

“Examine me, O Lord, and try me; Test my mind and my heart.” -Psalm 26:2

“Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from you.” Psalm 38:9

Do you, like me, ever feel “programmed” to respond to life circumstances in a certain way?

While we must take responsibility for our response to life, in a way we have been “programmed”, to some extent, by our past experiences, circumstances and life choices.

Please don’t hear that as me saying we have an excuse for how we act. I am…

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