Category: Emotions
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…
Don’t Jump
My husband, Mark, has a very good sense of humor. He used to compare our child-raising efforts to pushing a wheelbarrow full of frogs. It…
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…
A Gentle Answer
The author from the devotional I was reading that year posed a question, and I was pondering how to apply it in my life. We…
When Their Pain Becomes Your Own
When your kids grow up and get married or settled in a career they are happy with, You rejoice for them and sigh in relief….
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…
Would I Be Better in a Different Church?
This entry is sort of a part two to my last post, “A Time of Blah.” I was still feeling sort of blah and wrote…
A Time of Blahness
It feels sort of sacrilegious to use the term ‘blah’ in connection with God but the blahness has to do with me, not God! I’m…
Second Guessing Yourself
I’m assuming I am not alone in having times of kicking myself for either not speaking up about something or saying too much. I so…