Right now I am hopped up on Theraflu cold medicine and a big ol' thermos of Starbucks coffee. I am exhausted. It's one of those days where 8am hasn't even hit yet and I'm already giving myself pep talks. Yesterday I stayed home sick with a head cold, which has now moved into my chest, resulting in me sounding like a blues singer with a 30-year smoking habit. I probably should have stayed home today as well, but I get bored.
As I write this, I'm realizing how whiny I sound... A different way of saying how I'm feeling today is that I'm in desperate need of encouragement. In many areas of my life right now I feel like I am just barely making it by; in relationships, work, physical health. I am letting myself become run down by the world and its cares. I am being ruled by worry more often than I'd like to admit, or more often than I think is healthy (is it ever healthy? hmm). I want to shovel these discouraging thoughts out of my mind and fill my head and heart up with His truth.
Psalm 27:14 - "Wait for the Lord. Be strong and take heart, and wait for the Lord."
Isaiah 41:10 - "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 -
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ."
