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You Doubt When You Should Hope

This is like a disclaimer.  My journal is a place where I can be totally me.  Jesus died for me, knowing everything and loves me…

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Posted in Anxiety Christian Living Emotions Teaching

Emotional? Wait! Pray First.

How well do you take criticism?  I bet it depends largely on who gives it and how you feel in that relationship.  I wrote this…

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Posted in Anxiety Emotions

Lord, It’s Too Hard

There have been 4 or 5 seasons in my life when I went through significant anxiety for more than a day or two.  The breast…

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Posted in Emotions Family Relationships

Doing Life Together

It’s interesting to look back on what seemed, at the time, to be an inwardly frustrating situation.  I now recognize how understandable it really was,…

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He Calms the Storms in Mega Stress

2016-17 was the toughest year of my 20-year teaching career and my last. Over half of my class of kindergartners had behavior problems and our…

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Posted in Anxiety Cancer Emotions General

Reality has Never Equaled My Fears.

One of my major challenges with anxiety is that I typically want to thoroughly understand it and where it comes from.  Before having cancer in…

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Posted in Anxiety Christian Living Teacher

Audience of One

Mid-summer was the typical time in my teaching career when I would begin to have anxiety about the upcoming school year. I know, without even…

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Posted in Bible Emotions Parenting Teaching

Are You Mad?

I seldom read God’s Word without taking notes. This is why it takes me 4-5 years to read through the Bible!! Sometimes my note taking…

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Sometimes I Forget

This was written over 30 years ago.  I dare not say, “Insecurity is never a challenge now” but the Lord has shown me so much…

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It’s Tough Outside the Garden

Anxiety. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  This famous quote came from Franklin D. Roosevelt in his First Inaugural Address in…

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