I'm a wife, a mother, a friend...a florist...and I've got an anxious mind.
It's a strange thing...these minds of ours. Mine...just seems drawn to worry. I feel like a little hamster running on my wheel of anxiousness somedays. It gets tiring. I get tired. All I know is that when I finally realize that I'm there...in that place...like a shadow dark and smothering over me and I'm exhausted from all the work...of worrying...I know then, that it's time for me to get off that wheel.
I know what to do and how to do it. It's just that when I get into that shadowy place...it's like deep down inside me, I wrestle with, if I really want to or not.
I've learned that I can't stop worrying about the things that make me anxious, just by telling myself not to. I have to do a little work to gain my freedom. Kick something bad out and bring something good in
to take it's place.
About 5 years ago I started making something for myself and some of the girls in my Bible study group. Something to carry around with me in my purse, sit on the window sill while I was washing dishes, or lay next to me on my bedside table if I needed a quick reminder. Within that first year, I gave away over a hundred verse cards to encourage sisters that were struggling in the same areas that I was. And for a couple of years, I made verse cards to sell to anyone who wanted them. But as it does, life got busier for me it seemed and I stopped making them. That was about 2 years ago.
And then it happened, I got asked....for more. And I realized, that I needed them just as much. I'd given away all that I had. I was in that place again myself...tired, frustrated, worried...anxious with the future, anxious with the now.
So Here they Are.
They're not my words. They're God's words. Comforting. Restoring. Reminding. Refreshing.
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Blessings on you all,
Julie
