While shopping at Sam’s Club over the Holidays I picked up a book that I kept hearing about. I almost left it in the cart after I unloaded all of my purchases in the back of the van.
On the way from Sam’s Club to go home we stopped for Chineese food. While my husband went in to place our order so we could take it home, I started reading and could not put the book down.
As I mentioned, many people often feel alone at Christmas. Right now, you may not feel like God is with you. But God’s presence in your life has nothing to do with your feelings. Your emotions are susceptible to all kinds of influences, so they are often unreliable. Sometimes the worst advice you can get is “Do what you feel.” Often what we feel is neither real nor right. Your emotional state can be the result of memories, hormones, medicines, food, lack of sleep, tension, or fears. Whenever I start to feel anxious about a situation, I remind myself that fear is often False Evidence Appearing Real. – The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren, Author of #1 New York Times Bestseller The Purpose Driven Life
I liked reading that: False Evidence Appearing Real. (F.E.A.R) I’ve seen a lot of that go on first hand in 2008 and plan to make an effort to be more aware of that F.E.A.R factor so that I may totally and completely avoid it in my life.
Angela,
Thank you for sharing this I often fall to loneliness
God Bless
Richard Ochoa