If you're listening to this today and you catch yourself holding your breath, your heart's racing just a little bit, or sometimes it just feels like everything is on your shoulders and you just feel a little burdened.

You're not alone. And I want to remind you that just like the psalmist takes a soul and says, hey, soul, why are you so downcast?

Oh, my soul, put your hope in God.

Remember what is true about God.

Remember what is true about your hope in Jesus.

Hey, friends, welcome to the Ruth Joe Simon's podcast.

Today's episode is one of my favorites. Again, it's one of our preach to yourself episodes. You'll know that I am a big fan of preaching to myself. What do I mean by that? I take my cues from the psalmist in Psalm 42, as well as L lamentations three verse 21 which reads but this i call to mind and therefore i have hope and there's a colon after that because verse 22 says the steadfast love of

the lord never ceases his mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning.

Great is your faithfulness. That's what the prophet was preaching to his own heart. He was calling to mind something that would give him hope.

And today we're talking about what to preach to ourselves when life is overwhelming. I don't know about you, but life is always overwhelming for me at some level.

Maybe not every day at the greatest level, but some point of every day I feel a little overwhelmed

at life. If I'm honest, then I tell you that the fact that there's a burdensome, overwhelming

sense that life is moving out of fast speed.

There are lots of things that I feel called to that I don't feel capable of.

As a mom, I sometimes feel like, how did I get entrusted with these six kids?

Am I the right girl for this job?

Scenario after scenario every single day, I am tempted to feel anxious, which is why you guys

have been hearing me talk about my new devotional, The Way of the Wildflower, gospel

meditations to unburden your anxious soul. Because my goodness, life is

overwhelming. And in the way of the wildflower, I actually give 30 scenarios that have at one

point in time been a burden to me, when there's loss or when I want what I don't have, or when

Christian community is hard.

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