Category: Emotions
Imposter Student
Imposter student! I had a professor in the teaching program at Central Washington University who used this title to explain insecure feelings that people get….
He Calmed Me
This is a very much edited journal post! All my prolific journaling boiled down to only a few sentences. I think they were important for…
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,…
No Need for Jealousy
I chose this picture because I doubt this mom loved the held child more than the sulky one, but he obviously felt neglected. It reminds…
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…
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…