- Sep 20, 2014
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After a few years of great anxiety, recurring bouts of depression and spiritual dryness, I am trying to reset my heart and mind. I'm beginning tonight by reading through some of the Scriptures that are listed in the About and Purpose section at the top of the discussions in this forum each day and writing down my thoughts and feelings about them. The readings should last 5-6 days. The reason I don't specifically know which day it will end is because the list doesn't have the same number of Scriptures for each item listed, so I haven't decided how I will divide them out.
After that I'm going to do a workbook that is for new Christians to teach them how to live out a Christian life and grow in Christ called Survival Kit. This workbook is decades old, and a copy of it was given to me by my pastor when I was 13 right after my baptism. It was very beneficial to me then, and I repeated it when Iwas in my 20s. I expect for it to be beneficial again. It is the basics and meant to be the beginning of a life of learning and growing.
I feel my spirit and my mind needs to be renewed and my connection to the Lord needs to be focused on. During this time I plan to purge some things out of my life. Some are problematic, and some are just time wasters with no benefit. I'm also going through health changes after some new diagnosis's this year, and I'm having to adjust my lifestyle and expectations of myself physically.
I am concerned that it is too many changes at once, but I also feel like if I don't dive in, then it won't be helpful enough and I might not take it as seriously. I feel like I need to enter a period of spiritual discipline and training. I feel very alone in it because no one I know in my life is doing anything similar.
After that I'm going to do a workbook that is for new Christians to teach them how to live out a Christian life and grow in Christ called Survival Kit. This workbook is decades old, and a copy of it was given to me by my pastor when I was 13 right after my baptism. It was very beneficial to me then, and I repeated it when Iwas in my 20s. I expect for it to be beneficial again. It is the basics and meant to be the beginning of a life of learning and growing.
I feel my spirit and my mind needs to be renewed and my connection to the Lord needs to be focused on. During this time I plan to purge some things out of my life. Some are problematic, and some are just time wasters with no benefit. I'm also going through health changes after some new diagnosis's this year, and I'm having to adjust my lifestyle and expectations of myself physically.
I am concerned that it is too many changes at once, but I also feel like if I don't dive in, then it won't be helpful enough and I might not take it as seriously. I feel like I need to enter a period of spiritual discipline and training. I feel very alone in it because no one I know in my life is doing anything similar.
