Comments on: Stress and fear http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:58:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ronnie and Leah http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11830 Ronnie and Leah Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:46:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11830 Amen! Amen! Amen!<br/>This year, God has really been calling me to trust him-in everything. <br/><br/>It's hard.<br/><br/>I have so much to be thankful for, yet I doubt. Why is that? Why do we think that God is a man that he should lie?<br/><br/>Oh, Lord, help me trust you more. Amen! Amen! Amen!
This year, God has really been calling me to trust him-in everything.

It’s hard.

I have so much to be thankful for, yet I doubt. Why is that? Why do we think that God is a man that he should lie?

Oh, Lord, help me trust you more.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11775 Anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:41:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11775 The problem with consuming anxiety is that you forget to pray as if everything depended on you and work as if everything depended on God - the Jesuits were remarkably successful in defending the Faith until they reversed this maxim. The problem with consuming anxiety is that you forget to pray as if everything depended on you and work as if everything depended on God – the Jesuits were remarkably successful in defending the Faith until they reversed this maxim.

]]> By: Emily http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11704 Emily Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:09:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11704 I'm a very tired mom with a two year-old and a colicky newborn who doesn't sleep. This post is exactly what I needed to read, and I've found myself thinking about it all week in those moments when I want to break. So much of my anxiety is fear that it won't get better soon enough. One of these days I've got to sleep longer than two hours in a row, and in the middle of the night and the morning, that thought is so depressing and I get so upset worrying how long it'll be before my baby can sleep for longer than two hours. But then God will give me something, a beautiful day, a playdate with a friend.. or the other day, I was sobbing as I was holding my son, feeling totally overwhelmed and mad that he wouldn't stop screaming... and he looked up at me and gave me his first real smile! Little moments like that have gotten me through it, and I'm turning to God more than I was before. I know that this season is for me to need him more. Thank you so much for your words, they are a blessing to me. I’m a very tired mom with a two year-old and a colicky newborn who doesn’t sleep. This post is exactly what I needed to read, and I’ve found myself thinking about it all week in those moments when I want to break. So much of my anxiety is fear that it won’t get better soon enough. One of these days I’ve got to sleep longer than two hours in a row, and in the middle of the night and the morning, that thought is so depressing and I get so upset worrying how long it’ll be before my baby can sleep for longer than two hours. But then God will give me something, a beautiful day, a playdate with a friend.. or the other day, I was sobbing as I was holding my son, feeling totally overwhelmed and mad that he wouldn’t stop screaming… and he looked up at me and gave me his first real smile! Little moments like that have gotten me through it, and I’m turning to God more than I was before. I know that this season is for me to need him more. Thank you so much for your words, they are a blessing to me.

]]> By: 'Becca http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11703 'Becca Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11703 I felt called to write one of my stories about this sort of thing (it even has to do with pregnancy) just this week. I completely agree about the need to trust God when you feel overwhelmed.<br/><br/>But I have to ask: Do you really NEVER find yourself in one of these two situations? If you do, what do you do? (Pray, of course. Anything else?)<br/><br/>1. You feel you just can't take any more. And then you get more. And more. Eventually you do get through it, but no miracle comes to save you; it takes all the hard work you thought it would, and it doesn't bring you any insight more profound than just, "Huh, I guess I could handle it after all, sort of; at least we're all still alive and nothing exploded."<br/><br/>2. You're about to take a break for something pleasant and relaxing, such as date night, but you fear you don't deserve it and agonize over all the things that will be going undone while you're having fun. Possibly you wind up NOT having fun because you feel so guilty and worried about when you're going to get to all that stuff.<br/><br/>Sorry to raise these possibilities just when you need to be in "God will help me out" mode...but I'm hoping that your serene solutions to them will give you confidence, as well as helping fellow stress-monkeys like me! Oh, and be sure to reread your post about finding grace just before your last birth, and post a link for newer readers who didn't see it. I felt called to write one of my stories about this sort of thing (it even has to do with pregnancy) just this week. I completely agree about the need to trust God when you feel overwhelmed.

But I have to ask: Do you really NEVER find yourself in one of these two situations? If you do, what do you do? (Pray, of course. Anything else?)

1. You feel you just can’t take any more. And then you get more. And more. Eventually you do get through it, but no miracle comes to save you; it takes all the hard work you thought it would, and it doesn’t bring you any insight more profound than just, “Huh, I guess I could handle it after all, sort of; at least we’re all still alive and nothing exploded.”

2. You’re about to take a break for something pleasant and relaxing, such as date night, but you fear you don’t deserve it and agonize over all the things that will be going undone while you’re having fun. Possibly you wind up NOT having fun because you feel so guilty and worried about when you’re going to get to all that stuff.

Sorry to raise these possibilities just when you need to be in “God will help me out” mode…but I’m hoping that your serene solutions to them will give you confidence, as well as helping fellow stress-monkeys like me! Oh, and be sure to reread your post about finding grace just before your last birth, and post a link for newer readers who didn’t see it.

]]> By: Becca http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11687 Becca Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:32:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11687 oh my goodness, this is exactly what I needed to hear today. My grandmother passed away earlier this week, i have a 5 month old baby, and then I got the flu so I couldn't go to the funeral with my family . . . it's just one of those times where I feel like maybe God didn't realize but 'this is too much' . . . Even though it's not and I know it's not and i know that even now He is sustaining me. So thanks for the encouragement and also for the insight -- I appreciate it and cherish it! :-) thanks! oh my goodness, this is exactly what I needed to hear today. My grandmother passed away earlier this week, i have a 5 month old baby, and then I got the flu so I couldn’t go to the funeral with my family . . . it’s just one of those times where I feel like maybe God didn’t realize but ‘this is too much’ . . . Even though it’s not and I know it’s not and i know that even now He is sustaining me. So thanks for the encouragement and also for the insight — I appreciate it and cherish it! :-) thanks!

]]> By: Kingdom Mama http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11684 Kingdom Mama Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:11:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11684 Beautiful post Jen! Beautiful post Jen!

]]> By: Multiple Mom T http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11683 Multiple Mom T Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:51:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11683 Wow--that's amazing insight! I think I go through the same thing! Wow–that’s amazing insight! I think I go through the same thing!

]]> By: Laura http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11682 Laura Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:12:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11682 I can totally relate to sitting on the couch and staring straight ahead wondering how I was going to go forward. It is a feeling I can feel just typing about it. Well, I'm still here and still sane, so somehow God does pull us through it. Thanks for sharing this great post.<br/>God Bless! I can totally relate to sitting on the couch and staring straight ahead wondering how I was going to go forward. It is a feeling I can feel just typing about it. Well, I’m still here and still sane, so somehow God does pull us through it. Thanks for sharing this great post.
God Bless!

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11679 Elizabeth Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:31:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11679 Great post. <br/><br/>I had a similar moment the other night. Baby screaming, screaming, screaming, REFUSING to sleep having had all normal comforts. (He's a year old by the way.) Me to God: 'I cannot cope with this! And if you think I'm ever having another baby [we've got 4] you've got another think coming!'<br/><br/>Baby did fall asleep, then stayed asleep for 7 hours. Longest ever.<br/><br/>OK, God, the joke's on me. Great post.

I had a similar moment the other night. Baby screaming, screaming, screaming, REFUSING to sleep having had all normal comforts. (He’s a year old by the way.) Me to God: ‘I cannot cope with this! And if you think I’m ever having another baby [we've got 4] you’ve got another think coming!’

Baby did fall asleep, then stayed asleep for 7 hours. Longest ever.

OK, God, the joke’s on me.

]]> By: LauraAnne http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html/comment-page-1#comment-11680 LauraAnne Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:31:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2009/02/stress-and-fear.html#comment-11680 For me, my moment like that was at the end of 2004. I was mired in a horrible marriage with an immoral man. He was in an actual prison, and I was in a metaphorical one. I knew I had to get out but I didn't know how. So I started to pray the liturgy of the hours and go to church. The first Sunday there was a signup sheet for the parish dinner, and I signed up to attend. In that sunday's bulletin there was an announcement about some emergency preparedness classes that were going to be starting the same night as the dinner! How convenient!<br/><br/>That might I met the man God put on this earth for me. He was teaching the class and terribly bitter about God. He wasn't going to come and teach <i>this</i> class, because it was being held in a church. A Catholic one no less, and had already said no. He said that he hadn't been able to sleep that night because it was haunting him and called the Red Cross the next day to say he would teach it.<br/><br/>That was 5 years ago. I divorced the first man, and have been married to Jeff for 4 years in July!<br/><br/>God is so good to us... even when we aren't exactly following Him the way we should be. Even now, my new marriage is not yet blessed and my husband is still somewhat bitter... but not as badly as before. I just keep praying and I know that He will fix it to his liking. Not quite with the timing I'd like, but His time takes precedence. I wait in joyful hope. For me, my moment like that was at the end of 2004. I was mired in a horrible marriage with an immoral man. He was in an actual prison, and I was in a metaphorical one. I knew I had to get out but I didn’t know how. So I started to pray the liturgy of the hours and go to church. The first Sunday there was a signup sheet for the parish dinner, and I signed up to attend. In that sunday’s bulletin there was an announcement about some emergency preparedness classes that were going to be starting the same night as the dinner! How convenient!

That might I met the man God put on this earth for me. He was teaching the class and terribly bitter about God. He wasn’t going to come and teach this class, because it was being held in a church. A Catholic one no less, and had already said no. He said that he hadn’t been able to sleep that night because it was haunting him and called the Red Cross the next day to say he would teach it.

That was 5 years ago. I divorced the first man, and have been married to Jeff for 4 years in July!

God is so good to us… even when we aren’t exactly following Him the way we should be. Even now, my new marriage is not yet blessed and my husband is still somewhat bitter… but not as badly as before. I just keep praying and I know that He will fix it to his liking. Not quite with the timing I’d like, but His time takes precedence. I wait in joyful hope.

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