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There are 4 spaces in life, 3 we can do something about. We spend too much time and energy focusing on the one that we cannot and ought not try to manage.
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Anxiety is contagious and often the most anxious person has the most power.
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Chronic anxiety seeps through us like that foam insulation. It finds the nooks and crannies and squeezes out our awareness of God.
But it can be quickly displaced with some tools.
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This is the space we spend too much time and energy worrying about. If you've ever thought, 'what were they thinking? Why did they do that, Why wouldn't they _____' you're fixated on the one space you cannot manage.
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But Paul reminds us that one evidence of the Spirit's work in our life is SELF control. But we spend so much energy on THEM control.
That's a big fat nope.
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So often we blame, rather than looking at the dynamic between me and them. We tend to cast out our responsibility rather than ask the harder question, 'What am I doing that it making the dynamic worse?'
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Pause, breathe. Practice radical self kindness.
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