I leave for Haiti in 41 days!! It seems unreal to me. God has come through for me AGAIN and I have raised/been given more than enough money for my trip. In fact I feel guilty for even having a teensy bit of doubt that it wouldn't happen, silly me! I have never been on an overseas mission trip, I have done missions here in the US, after Katrina hit we went to Mississippi and Alabama to help clean up, hand out food, etc. I know that I'm going to come home a different person, and I'm okay with that. I can't wait to meet so many awesome missionaries who have given up most everything to move there and change lives, I also can't wait to meet the people who live there and are searching for something to live for. I ask that you keep us in your prayers; for safe travels, a healthy stay, but most importantly that we can touch many lives of hurting people there.
Until next time...Isaiah 6:8
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Coming Unglued
As women we come unglued, lose it, freak out, completely fall apart...it happens, but does it have to? Just because we are women does it mean that we have to act ugly; do we have to have an ugly heart? No, we don't and God doesn't want us to. Just because we can't control our emotions doesn't mean we have an excuse to tear down the people we love the most. So as women let's take a stand, and stop losing it! So, how do we go about completing this extremely hard task of keeping it under control?
That was a question I kept asking myself after I totally freaked out about silly things like Matt leaving 3 Fruity Pebbles in the bowl and now they were STUCK. So I just totally tore down my husband because of Fruity Pebbles. Why do we feel the need to do this? Why can't we just say "hey can you please rinse your bowl just a little better, because those silly pebbles ALWAYS stick." Why is it easier to have steam come out of our ears?
I couldn't figure out how to just chill out, to breath when I got mad, to just wait until I was over it before I brought it up. I'm still having this problem, but I'm learning quickly that when I have kids I don't want them to see me lose it over ANYTHING, but especially not silly things like the dishes. So I need to get a hold on this BEFORE we starting having kids.
The first thing that I know I need to do to overcome this issue is to pray. I need to pray that I can hold me tongue when I just want to scream and yell. I need to pray to have control over myself. So when something happens that I just want to freak out about I just take a few deep breathes and talk about it calmly.
I am doing a study with my friend on a book called Unglued, and we are reading it because we both know as women we need to learn healthy ways to resolve things that make us angry instead of turn into The Hulk.
I ask you as a woman to think about how you react in situations, do you keep it together or do you come completely unglued? If you are coming unglued I challenge you to change it, start praying for the Lord to guide in this journey of creating a new you.
We all have emotions and we need to learn to live with them in a healthy way.
Until next time...Proverbs 21:23
That was a question I kept asking myself after I totally freaked out about silly things like Matt leaving 3 Fruity Pebbles in the bowl and now they were STUCK. So I just totally tore down my husband because of Fruity Pebbles. Why do we feel the need to do this? Why can't we just say "hey can you please rinse your bowl just a little better, because those silly pebbles ALWAYS stick." Why is it easier to have steam come out of our ears?
I couldn't figure out how to just chill out, to breath when I got mad, to just wait until I was over it before I brought it up. I'm still having this problem, but I'm learning quickly that when I have kids I don't want them to see me lose it over ANYTHING, but especially not silly things like the dishes. So I need to get a hold on this BEFORE we starting having kids.
The first thing that I know I need to do to overcome this issue is to pray. I need to pray that I can hold me tongue when I just want to scream and yell. I need to pray to have control over myself. So when something happens that I just want to freak out about I just take a few deep breathes and talk about it calmly.
I am doing a study with my friend on a book called Unglued, and we are reading it because we both know as women we need to learn healthy ways to resolve things that make us angry instead of turn into The Hulk.
I ask you as a woman to think about how you react in situations, do you keep it together or do you come completely unglued? If you are coming unglued I challenge you to change it, start praying for the Lord to guide in this journey of creating a new you.
We all have emotions and we need to learn to live with them in a healthy way.
Until next time...Proverbs 21:23
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