“You help someone by telling them your story,” says my blogger friend Mitch Teemley. Okay, that’s not a direct quote, but it sums up his purpose in story telling–I think. Since I linked back to his site, maybe he’ll chime in.🤞
My story goes like this: at times I’ve been like a leafless tree, watching the sea’s ebb and flow. This line won’t make it into a greeting card, but I suspect many of you can relate.
I’m just a regular guy who was tempted to lose all hope but did not. It was God who made the difference.
Regular David (me)
Yes. At critical life moments, when anxiety threatened to flood me out, the creator of the universe gifted me with resiliency. I call the combination of these seemingly incompatible words, “anxiliency.” Doubtless, I’m not the first person to coin this term. But feel free to make me famous by telling your beating-the-odds story using the hashtag #anxiliency.😇
Seriously, the Apostle Paul spoke of this concept when he wrote to the church at Corinth: “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” 2 Corinthians 4:8,9 (KJV)
Kind reader, Paul is talking about rejoicing in hope of the glory of God! And he told another church–in Rome–how to do this. Please see my home made illustration below:
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope
Romans 5:3-4 (NIV)
Kind reader, have you been through God’s Hero Spin Cycle? Perhaps, like me, you came out a better (more godly) person afterwards. Please share your story in the comments, or write a post about it and send me the link. Because story’s matter. There I go indirectly quoting from mitchteemley.com again.😊
Thank you for reading. 🙏❤️ prayers and love.
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