Category: Anxiety
Comfort in Anxiety
Since 1996, mid-July through September have typically been seasons of anxiety for me. If you are a teacher, you may relate! The beginning years were…
Jesus Never Changes
As many of you know I have kept a journal for close to fifty years. I write on average about five times a week. Sometimes…
A Consistent Response from God
This was written as I approached graduation and was looking toward my first teaching position. From the journal . . . . May 1996 Lord,…
I Don’t Know How to Be
In 1989 I began sensing the Lord calling me to become an elementary school teacher. I had thought for years that when my kids were…
You Be the Daughter
It’s sort of funny, but when I see that I have a journal entry with God’s Personal Words to Me* dated from the second half…
Jesus Says, “All is Well. I’m in Control”
I remember having a time of anxiety when I was a little girl. I was in kindergarten and had accidentally kicked my best friend in…
Desperate
Addictions are very hard, to say the least. My husband is a recovered alcoholic but hasn’t drunk for many years. That wasn’t the case in…
Adding to Our History
Here’s what I wrote in my journal a month later.* I was disappointed because we couldn’t have our annual Christmas party at the shop because…
Anxiety Strikes Again
If this post seems familiar, it’s because it’s a repeat from last year. I recently came across another journal entry that I did about a…
Calmly Strong ~ Strongly Calm
When anxiety comes, I am very insecure, and I falter. As I read back, these entries are not the easiest to read because they are…