Category: Emotions
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…
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…