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STRESSED OUT

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 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life” ( Matt 6:25-27 ) Stress , we all know it, we have all felt it, and some of us have probably felt it today. You didn’t  dress your kid for “theme” day, you forgot you had a big meeting today, it’s your best friend’s birthday but you haven’t so much as bought a card yet and you can’t remember if you fed the dog today. Stress is very common in life and everyone experiences it, yet it leaves us feeling isolated and alone. The devil uses stress to keep our minds so occupied that we don’t have room for God. The devil wil...

I AM NOT LIKE YOU

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“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” ― Walt Disney God did not intended on every human being to be the same as the next. Gasp, I know! What a concept that I am supposed to be different than you. In a society that nips this and tucks that to achieve what is perceived to be perfect beauty, we have to start loving ourselves for who we are. I am not meant to look, act or think just like you. You are not supposed to act, look or think just like the next person. God has placed certain gifts and talents inside each one of us and if we keep striving to keep up with the whoevers we will never realize our full potential in the kingdom of God. Take me for example, if we were on a boat that was about to sink and the only hope to keep it from sinking is that I have to solve a calculus problem, you better grab your floaties and snorkel because we are going down! Now, give my husband that same problem and he’s the hero that sav...