Have you ever had an emotional reaction where you think, what is wrong with me?

Have you ever had this little thing happen and you find yourself panicking over something

you know logically isn't a big deal?

And yet everything, the real estate,

emotionally, mentally, it just feels like it's been absorbed. Well, I want you to know,

you're not broken, you're predicting. Yes, I said that right. You are not broken. You're predicting.

And when you understand that, when you actually understand that truth, everything changes.

So open up your Bibles to the book of Romans chapter 12, verse 2.

It's at the back of the Bible in the New Testament, Romans chapter 12, verse 2.

We're going to read that.

But first, I want to share a story in my book of how this kind of happened in my everyday life. It's an embarrassing story,

but I hope you relate to this. So I'm going to read it. I stood in the kitchen staring into the

fridge that was completely frozen over. My four boys, they were hungry, and Ben was on his way

home. And all I saw were shelves of random ingredients that didn't add up to an actual

meal. My heart started to race. My palms got sweaty. And I felt that familiar pit in my stomach.

Why am I panicking over dinner? This wasn't a crisis. It was pasta. But it felt like the whole

weight of my life was hanging on whether I could

figure out what to cook. Inside, the monologue started. You should have planned better. You're

always behind. Everyone else manages their life. Why can't you? Then came the shame. Normal people

don't fall apart over spaghetti.

Something is wrong with you.

But here's the truth I didn't know then.

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