Category: Emotions
From Negative to Positive
This entry is interesting to me as I read it 30+ years later. I started out feeling very insecure as a person being of use…
Don’t Be Afraid, Little Flock
Fear has a great stronghold on our feelings and easily transfers to our physical body.* That’s a good thing when we are in danger. The…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…