Who do you think you are?

January 12, 2022
Midweek Study with Pastor Edith
Deuteronomy 31:8

This week I have been spending a lot of time going through a lot of stuff. Stuff that I was given, stuff that I bought, stuff that I discovered in the parsonage where I live, just a lot of stuff. I know some of you start a new year by downsizing your stuff, I however, was not intending to do that as I am not a very good organizer and was just sort of hoping the stuff I didn’t need would somehow just go away.

Getting new flooring all throughout the house in which my hubby and I dwell made it necessary for me to move everything from the rooms being renewed to rooms already renewed, hence, I have been shuffling my stuff for a while. I came to the obvious realization that stuff was causing me stress. Not the good kind of stress that motivates, but the negative kind of stress that tells you to just sit down and don’t do anything. In times of this type of stress I find myself thinking badly about myself, feelings of inadequacy and anxiety can sometimes render me useless, or so I thought. I came across a list of encouraging words from the Bible and from a few celebrities that I had saved in a long-lost binder that I started when I first came into the pastorate. Bonus! It seems buckling down and cleaning out pays off.

Here’s what I have for all of you who may be feeling some of the stress of negative thoughts about yourself.

Inspiration from Deuteronomy 31:8 – “It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed”.

Inspiration from Milton Berle – “I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star, I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have –been has never been, but a has was once an are.”

AMEN!