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- Pastor Name: Amy Cornell
- Date & Time: June 14, 2015 | 10:00am
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Peace: Our Inheritance
Many of you don’t know this, but from birth, I have not been able to sleep. My parents often tell the story that I did not sleep through the night for the first two-and-a-half years I was born. God bless my mom and dad. I can’t believe they had more children after me. By the time I was eleven years old, I had to see a doctor and be put on medication to sleep. My problem was not only biological, but it seemed that I had been born plagued with anxiety.
Here are some of the things I worried about throughout the years:
That I was not good enough and would disappoint my parents.
I still remember the first “B” I ever received. It was a fifth grade science test on protons, neutrons and electrons. I missed four, asked to be excused, and went to the bathroom and had a mini-nervous breakdown at the age of eleven.
That I wouldn’t get into a good college. When I got into college, I worried that I wouldn’t find a job. When I found a job, I worried I would never get married. When I finally got married, I worried that I couldn’t have children. When I got pregnant, I worried my child wouldn’t be healthy. When our son was born healthy, I worried that I would do something wrong and our son would die.
Then I got cancer. I worried I would die. When the cancer was out of my body, I worried I wouldn’t have any more children. When I got pregnant with Annie, I worried whether I could parent more than one child. When I started working at White’s after Annie, I worried that I would fail at mothering and fail the kids at White’s. When I got pregnant with our third baby, I worried that our house wasn’t big enough, that I could not handle a third child, and I would have to quit my job. Each and every day, I HAVE to..
Can you see how exhausting it is to carry all of the load of this on your shoulders???
There is a story in the Bible about a time when the disciples were crazy worried. As I read the words, I want you to focus on Jesus’ actions and reactions compared to these men he so deeply loves.
Download the entire transcript here: Mark 4 35-41 Peace – Our Inheritance
