Each day during The PURSE-onality Challenge: "A Holiday-Ready Heart" in October, Untangling Christmas by Karen Ehman and LeAnn Rice, will be our give-away prize!
How It Works (via Bullet Points & Videos!)
Day 12: INSEPARABLE (+ Missing Loved Ones at the Holidays)
Day 13: DELIVERED (+ Why the Holidays Can Overwhelm)
Day 13: DELIVERED (+ Why the Holidays Can Overwhelm)
Today's blog comes to you as a vlog (below) and bullet points (scroll down).
Vlog Bullet Points
- story from my second year of teaching, feeling overwhelmed with everything I was doing: "Yes, Cheri, you sure did do all this to yourself, didn't you!"
- How each PURSE-onality "does it to herself" during the holidays:
- Sanguine: People ask us to help, to get involved, to be a part of things. We love people, so we say "yes!" to the concept, to the idea, to the person. But we can become overwhelmed by the details and complications.
- Melancholy: Can get so caught up in the details that we miss the "bigger picture," especially when things that should be going "right" aren't; problems can turn the entire project / event / season into an overwhelming "failure."
- Choleric: We love initiating and taking charge of so many wonderful things; we often forget that there are only so many hours in the day. And we can become overwhelmed when other people get in the way of progress toward our goals.
- Phelgmatic: Often by default, we end up in "commitments" to which we never really committed. We didn't say "yes," but we didn't say "no," either. As deadlines approach, we can become overwhelmed with feelings of "but I never agreed to..." Need to fully engage or fully decline.
him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in You.
Trust in the Lord forever.
For the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal. Isaiah 26:3-4 (NIV)
This verse reminds me that regardless of my PURSE-onality, I can't trust myself to decide what I will or won't do. I need to trust the Lord to tell me what he wants me to do and what he wants me to not do.
When I trust in Him, rather than myself, I will live in perfect peace...especially during the holidays!
Your Turn!
- Which way of overwhelming yourself sounds familiar?
- Do you think that much of your holiday stress is self-imposed, or do you feel that most of it comes from others?
- Anything else on your heart!
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