I think I’ve mentioned that I get “witnessed to” via emails from my MIL. Here’s an excerpt from today’s email:
36 CHRISTIAN WAYS TO REDUCE STRESS
An Angel says, “Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn’t happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.”
1. Pray
2. Go to bed on time.
3. Get up on time so you can start the day unhurried.
4. Say No to projects that won’t fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health.
5. Delegate tasks to capable others.
6. Simplify and unclutter your life.
7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.)
8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places
9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don’t lump the hard things all together.
10. Take one day at a time.
11. Separate worries from concerns . If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety. If you can’t do anything about a situation, forget it.
I have three problems with this email and they are:
-The MIL doesn’t practice what she preaches.
-These aren’t all that “Christian” in nature most are just plain practical.
-Lastly, no where on the list is have a drink or have sex, or have a drink and then have sex.
I was thinking, sounds like common sense, until the “what would God have you do” one. I say, praise the lord my MIL doesn’t have my email address.
I find this so funny. I pulled up the hometown paper from Germany this afternoon and this is the first thing I read:
“Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is at the neighboring saloon and does not hear her.”
— Mark Twain
Maybe Mark Twain was really a man of the cloth?