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January 2010 - Tight as a Top

Dear Judy
I feel over the top stressed out all of the time, wound tight as a top. It’s starting to affect my relationship with my family and friends. I want to learn how to handle this overwhelming feeling and relax? I wish I could find a remedy somewhere, no matter the cost, that would just melt my problems away. Can you help me?

Dear Uptight One,

I can empathize with you because years ago, I was feeling so overwhelmed, I was almost immobile. The simplest tasks seemed insurmountable and the hard tasks would put me in a real dilemma. Even when I knew I had the skills to do the task, it just weighed me down. Being stressed all the time lead me into depression. But I did find help, which I’ll share and hope it helps you.

You did not say if you are a Christian. My worst problem with stress came before I became a Christian. At that time I had no skills to bring myself out of the hole I was in. I thought a little drink would help and a little pill would do it for me, and then the little drink led to many drinks, and one pill led to many pills. I’m sorry to say that many years of abusing both alcohol and prescription drugs almost wrecked my life, my marriage, and my son.

I read many self-help books searching for ways to pull myself out of the cycle of overwhelming pressures, substance abuse and depression. I was desperate to find help, but the self-help books didn’t help one iota.

I am happy to say that in time, I responded to the help that had been there for me all the time. I began looking up to the one who created me and everything around me and in our great universe. And that is God. I began reading the Creator’s manual, the Bible, for His solutions to my problems. I figured He should know best since he created me!

I read in the Bible that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). When a person is feeling stressed all the time, they feel like they are perishing. But God says whoever believes in His Son can have everlasting life. As I searched the Scriptures, I found that by accepting Jesus Christ as my Savior and turning my life over to Him, all the promises in the Bible became mine. Wow! What a self-help book! I say self-help because I had (and have) the privilege of helping myself with the Word of God by reading it and believing it and stopping the stressful and overwhelming patterns of my life. And you, and anyone, can do the same.

Here’s how I relax. I look at my calendar and I get my priorities in order. The very first thing that I do each day is find strength in the book of promises that belong to me, the Bible. I also talk to my creator in prayer. I read God’s word, I talk with God. And then I exercise my body. After this, I am ready to face my day, not somehow, but triumphantly.

It seems to me that our society is on a jet-speed treadmill, and trying to keep up with the fast pace is stressful, so why not learn to relax by focusing some time in your day on the words of eternal life, the Bible. God can be your emotional strength, and when you know that, He will give you the ability to rest in Him. 

"Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass (Psalms 37:5)."

When we trust Him to handle every situation, then we will be able to unburden and truly relax!

December 2009 - Evolution as fact?

Dear Judy

How is it that public schools cover evolution almost as a fact, not a theory, and yet the Christian view is not presented in this so-called Christian nation? In the news I’ve seen where teachers have been fired for just presenting their views on this. We were founded on Christian principles. Most of our founders were believers. But our history books don’t tell this anymore. Aren’t there enough believers in influential places to demand at least an equal voice in the origins of life? - Concerned Christian

Dear Concerned Christian,
With Christmas being celebrated this month, this is an excellent question! Anyone can do a little research to see that the Founding Fathers of this nation used prayer in the government and that the Bible was used in schools to teach students how to read. Christianity was the backbone of society, but how sad it is to see how far we’ve strayed as a nation from those basic principals.

You are right when you say that evolution is a theory and not a fact. It is the Christians who should have risen up against the teaching of evolution when it was being offered as fact, but I’m sorry to say that hasn’t been the case. Not enough anyway. Our young people are made to believe that any intelligent person could only believe in evolution and not in creationism. It’s been a slow but steady process eliminating biblical principals from our country and schools. When people question my husband, Vic, on the subject of evolution, he tells them it takes more faith to believe that we came from a monkey than to believe in a divine Creator. I say Amen to that.

This is the Christmas season and the reason we celebrate is the birth of Jesus, and God almighty coming in the form of a baby through the virgin birth to earth.  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (Colossians 1:15-17).

People say that creationism is just a theory. But if a person will observe the birds, animal life, the ocean and its colorful life, the sky with all of its stars and galaxies, and the mountains, etc., it is hard to believe these simply evolved. Now take a human being and think about the intricate parts with their different functions. This puts everything in perspective. How can a rational logical person think that all of those wonderful intricate parts of the human body came from one single cell and developed into something so complex as a human being? How foolish! Many Christian have compromised their beliefs by mixing evolution with the Bible. They do not mix! Only a divine Creator could create all of this and keep it all together.

It’s still not too late to demand an equal voice about creationism. Use your voice in your children’s schools, or wherever you can. The voice of the Creator should be heard and that will come through His creation! Even if others do not stand up against the lies of evolution, you and I can. Our voices can be heard concerning this matter if we stand together and be steadfast about what we believe, which is a creator who created ALL things! It is never too late to make a difference!