Good Morning Ladies,
I hope everyone had a fantastic week. This morning I was going over my notes from the book, and I thought I would share with you some of the things that really hit home for me. The stuff in quotations will be from Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow and I will also have a page number in parenthesis.
"Two women looked through prison bars, One saw mud, the other saw stars" (29).
I have always considered myself a pretty optimistic person, but this past week I have caught myself looking at the mud a lot more than I thought I did. I have to ask myself why would I do that? I did it because it was my choice to look at my situation instead of looking at God and knowing that He is the blessed controller and my source for peace. I think this will be a lifelong journey, but as long as I continue to realize that my peace really does come from God, and not from me trying to control my circumstances.
On page 32 she quotes Proverbs 23:7, " As he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (KJV).
She states "our thought life determines our contentment!" (32).
This statement is so true in every way. Joel and I have had this conversation a lot. The things of this world and the people in your life are not responsible for making you or I happy. It is our choice to let our circumstances take over our thought life or to let Gods truth reign in our hearts and minds. A few years back Joel said to me "when we said our vowes we made a commitment and a promise to God not each other that we would love one another in sickness and in health till death do us part.... If we break this commitment we are breaking our commitment to God. If we continue our commitment it is our own responsibility to God, so I (Joel) am going to do my 100% whether or not you do 100% is up to you (me). His statement was a wake-up call to me, and he was sooo right. We decided that day that no matter how we felt (weather or not we thought the other person was doing 25, 50,or 100%) we were going to continue to do our part, and I can honestly say our marriage is 100% better. I praise God every day for that.
Well I hope you ladies have a wonderful day. I know that this book is opening my eyes in a whole new way, and I am so excited to see what God is going to show me next. Don't forget to comment on the pages and encourage one another in Christ Jesus. I love y'all....
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