Be Anxious For Nothing- Part 3 – Thinking About Truth

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true . . . meditate on these things.
One of the ways we can overcome stress is to meditate on truth.  I often forget that a great spiritual battle is raging all around me.  I forget that I have an enemy and his whole band of followers who whisper lies to [...]

Be Anxious For Nothing – Part 2

There are some practical ways to help handle stress and anxiety.  Know your stressors and develop plans to avoid or diffuse stressful situations.  As much as is possible, get enough sleep.  Eat well.  Drink plenty of water.  And, of course, there is the usual Christian advice that is so common we might forget how important [...]

Stress And Anxiety — Coming Soon!

I promise I will write the second part of dealing with stress and anxiety — as soon as I finish washing and drying all the towels that soaked up the rain that leaked in through the 20 windows in our apartment.  I believe in testing out the tips before I share them with you!  I’m [...]

Be Anxious For Nothing – Part 1

Anxiety.  Stress.  I wanted to write this follow-up post much sooner.  I planned to do it last week, the day after I wrote the introductory post about stress.  But I was too stressed with school starting and unpacking and settling back into life that I didn’t have time to write about stress.  But God knew! [...]

Back In The Saddle

Whew!  We got back home from our long road-trip and hit the ground running.  I haven’t even unpacked everything yet because we’ve been getting ready for today — the first day of school!  This morning, I kissed two-thirds of my children goodbye and sent them across the street to begin first grade, second grade, fourth [...]