Day 16 of Advent: "Go...and deliver the
message I have given you." ~Jonah 3:2 "Advent can feel like an advent of
crises. A whole string of Jonah-days brazenly begging you to head in
the opposite direction, to get away from the dark underbelly
of people and agendas and loving the unlovely and loud. Jonah finds a
boat and buys a one-way ticket and sails due west, as if a man can ever
escape the grace of God. As if finding your ship isn't sometimes more
like jumping ship...You aren't equipped for life until you're in need of
grace." ~Ann Voskamp
This week's blog topic from Proverbs 31 OBS is on “Worry”… AND I know a thing or two about worry. I’m betting a lot of you reading this do as well. Dictionary.com defines worry as: “ to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret. ” Torment oneself. Suffer. Fret. That’s what I can do to myself sometimes. I’ve heard that if you worry you don’t really trust that God can handle it. You don’t trust God with it. That’s hard to swallow for me. Because I worry about my kids, my family, me, friends, etc. But I’m in the Bible every single day. I am a Jesus girl. So for me to worry and then see that my worry means I don’t trust that God can handle it is hard. UGH. I am getting better about it though. My time with God every morning is helping. When I start to worry about something…I begin to pray. I stop the tormenting in its tracks and give it to Jesus. Now, I may have to give it to Jesus more than once.
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