As ya'll maybe know I have started studying Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. And I find myself yet AGAIN (shocker) buried under a pile of books and papers. Haha And I have absolutely no idea why it inspired me of all things I can/have to do... (knit, run, laugh, cry, sing, travel, glob, eat, make a new friend, eat a bagel, walk the dog, go on facebook, play dragon, punch a wall, study more, just lay on the floor like a dead man) I blog!
...visualize with me (use of picture is optional). The heaviness and agony I find myself in. I cannot even take a normal breath with all of the pressure I feel on my chest (oy gryd) and body. And I search for the LIGHT...and with all the strength I have left I.......oh I'm getting bored of this story. Basically I just closed up my books and left the room. And turned on my laptop and started writing.
AnyWHoooo... Recently I have found myself kinda unstable and well...crazy (with all the psych pple around me and all the time i have spent with books and those evil little ity bitty letters).
Sometimes I hallucinate that this is occurring...boy that's gotta be frustrating. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I find it hard to keep myself mentally healthy (that doesnt mean I'm crazy people! lol). However it says in 2 Timothy "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a
sound mind."
my own italics added.
God gives us that renewal and refresher that we so desperately need! Every step we take in this world makes our feet dirty. The filth, sickness and dirt of this world clings to us, whether we want it or not. However its God's promises like these that make me SO GLAD. God can wash us right up!
When God talks about how Christ loves the church in Ephesians 5, God understand that we get dirty and He says "that He [Christ] might sanctify and cleanse her [church] with the washing of water by the word, that he might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she might be holy and without blemish."
Its so amazing that God even promises to protect and wash and renew our minds for us...through the word, through the Holy Spirit (titus 3:5). After learning about all the scary things that go on in "sick" people's minds I find such comfort knowing God has my heart and mind in His hand. And He even wants to renew and refresh my mind for me.
He can renew your mind, your passions, your thoughts, your heart. God can, if you ask, instill His OWN passions and thoughts and heart and mind into you.
