"Deborah's Eight Guarantee Steps to Controlling Stress"

1. Pray each morning. But, make sure you don't end it until you've asked God's help for those "special individuals" you're bound to run into during your daily journey.
2. Pray again. That your child's school doesn't have to put another call in to you. Sometimes letting them wonder about that nervous twitch above your eye helps them see things differently.
3. Pray some more. For your marriage. Killing him for leaving the toilet seat up, dry shaving cream on the sink, remembering while you're stuck on the highway he didn't check the oil in your car, mail the mortgage payment, pay the trash man, etc. will only add more stress. Yes, you also probably would've been able to get better seats had he ordered the concert tickets ahead of time. Instead of the day before (Oh yeah, by the way, the vertigo will subside once you're back down on level ground).
4. Pray an extended prayer. Help in the work place. Let those trips to the bathroom to keep from flinging your boss out the window work for your good. Walking is a good source of exercise, and tension release. End of the day and last trip there, start your melt down. Inhale then slowly exhale. Don't want to start hyperventilating. This can cause irrational behavior.
5. Pray until the heaven's open. Stopping to pick up dinner on your way home can be very helpful, relieving a lot of stress until you get home and discover they forgot to put everything in your bag. Or, the young lady who talked on her cell phone while taking your order gave you all dark meat when you asked her to mix it. And, how can five people eat one biscuit?
6. Pray for heaven to come down. The heat you feel running down your back is not hot flashes, but a sign that your blood pressure has just elevated. Those half damp mildewed clothes your pulling out of your washer machine right now is just a figment of your imagination. Of course your sweet little baby girl remembered to put them in the dryer. Don't look now, but something faded.
7. Praying in the Holy Ghost. He will help you to abstain from all those "not so favorable" selection of words building up in your vocabulary while you're waiting for your computer screen to unfreeze. Maybe your business partners will still get the proposal in time. One thing for sure, banging on that hard drive will only extend your stress especially after you get the repair bill. "Is that smoke coming out the back?"
8. Pray for Peace. It all starts again tomorrow.

» left by Marijo Phelps

2 years 98 days ago.
142 fans.

Love your sense of humor and how you express it here. And the focus PRAY without ceasing - sometimes it is the only way we can have a chance to get our head above water...HE is able! Think I will Warpit!

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» left by Deborah Hall-Branch 2 years 97 days ago.
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Thanks again Marijo. "A merry heart doeth good ..." especially with all the sorrow 

around us today. I'm so glad He's able. Couldn't do it without Him. Please do Warpit!

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