Handling Stress

Dear Readers,

God bless you, your loved ones and your ministries today!

Our teenage son and I locked horns this morning and I felt uncomfortably stressed afterwards. I needed to forgive him, which was easy, and forgive myself, which was not so easy. I had to find a way to help myself to feel better in order to enjoy my day.

Then I read my friend's blog about issues of control and it helped ease my mind. She said that we all have areas of our lives over which we have no control, and we wish we could, so we try to control other people to make ourselves feel better. Her honesty stung because I was trying to control our son this morning to do things which I felt were important, but he didn't. But the sting went away, because I could hear her voice through her words and she is a comfort to me.

As I went about my business, I thought about how stressful life is for many people in the world and reminded myself that my troubles are small. Plus I remembered that I have a job to do today. My job gives me a sense of purpose and I don't want to allow stress to get in the way of doing my job well.

I pray that you have a low stress, happy day and that you feel fulfilled by your work and play today.