by Barbara Latta
If we aren’t careful, we can carry anxiety from those
experiences into our future.
To thrive, we don’t want to let last year’s disappointments
derail 2021.
The key to avoiding this is to check our focus. In her book, Write
His Answer, Marlene Bagnull issued a challenge. Get your eyes off yourself
and onto someone else. In this case it was other writers who might need
encouragement or help, but this idea can transfer to anyone in our lives.
She suggested choosing one of the four gospels to read and to
list all the events that could have caused Jesus disappointment.
I chose the book of John and this is a shortened list of what I discovered:
