My learning memo for this month is from my reading of Louie Giglio’s book “Winning the War on Worry.” He addresses the myths and lies of worry, our tendencies to be anxious by tracing the root cause of our worry (“at the heart of worry is our need to be in control”)and he also calls us to develop the discipline of cultivating a peaceful heart and confident mind (by replacing the lies with the truth).

I don’t want to live this way, and God is certainly calling me deeper. A deeper fellowship that doesn't have me walking away and turning my face from Him when things don’t go as I planned or hoped, a stronger faith that does not sway wherever the wind blows, a true knowledge of Him that profoundly changes how I live my life, what I give my thoughts to, where I find rest, how I surrender, how I wait, essentially how I live in the mundanities and the unexpected terrors of my day to day.

“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the rock of ages”