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So you’re sitting there mindlessly twirling your hair while your stressed out thoughts are also twirling through your head.
Your anxiety level is up.
You sigh again.
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Her disheveled hair and dark-circled eyes made it obvious that her Insta-story on Instagram had been made in the middle of the night. A female author I follow there posted a few minutes of herself talking about her struggle to sleep…again. It seems her nighttime fitfulness has become a regular part of life for her. Her hopeful remedy was going to be a series on television and a hot beverage. She asked her viewers who else was struggling to sleep. She said – I think it’s all this unrest around us. So much sickness. So much change even during the Christmas season. I just don’t know how to cope. Then she asked her viewers a question – Please tell me how you cope when you can’t sleep.
I gladly answered her question then, but then I got a fuller answer from the Lord just a couple days later.
Continue reading “What To Do On Those Sleepless Nights”Every day “little burdens” trouble our souls and weigh down our hearts like a backpack strapped to our shoulders. One more struggle added to a medium-sized load causes a sigh to escape from our lips and our shoulders to droop.
I felt that way recently when I lost a small, costly and needed item…a hearing aid. The moment I realized it was missing, I gasped, sighed, and closed my eyes in disbelief. It had been a busy week serving the Lord, and this day had been especially full. When I realized the problem I was in a place where I could do nothing. I couldn’t get up and go search for it because we were at camp sitting in a service.
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On a recent early spring day, my husband and I were strolling on one of the beautiful walking paths near us. There is a little river that runs alongside the path. There are a couple of small waterfalls. There are green pastures and mountains. I was reveling in the beauty of it all when I looked at a woman walking towards me. She was not looking at the scenery. She wasn’t looking at the path or those that were walking towards her. She had her phone lifted up and she was texting and scrolling, totally oblivious to the beauty. Now perhaps she had a good reason to do this, but all I could think was, She’s missing all THIS!”
But how often I do the same thing when I’m overwhelmed with things going on in my life! All I can do is be obsessed with what is happening and how it’s affecting me. I miss what God is wanting to show me or remind me.
Continue reading “Remember This On a Hard Day”Years ago I remember walking along a path in which there was absolutely no light. I had no cell phone flashlight in my pocket to aid my faltering steps. Therer was no moonlight or glowing porch bulb that might remove the terror of my feet. I found myself grappling along, inch by inch, down a concrete stairway and sidewalk in which I made every step cautiously and with hesitation. It was as though my toe would move forward and the rest of my body hesitated to follow, due to fear of what was ahead!
Fear can lead to lots of miserable things in our lives, but it can do the same in relationships. Let’s think about what fear in marriage can do. If a wife is afraid that her marriage might not make it, it can keep that relationship from experiencing the freedom that a simple light would have given me that night on the dark path. What might be the results in a marriage?
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