Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers in our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. I'm thrilled to welcome a very dear woman

to the podcast today, a special guest named Jamie Taylor. You know sometimes how you meet someone and you think

this is a person I have to have as my friend? Yeah, Jamie was that woman for me and I met her all the

way in Idaho when I was speaking there at her amazing church, Grace Bible in Nampa. Jamie is the wife of a

pastor there. She's in leadership with the women's ministry there, as well as the worship team.

And she's a personal hero of mine because not only does she mother four children, but she's

a foster parent, along with her husband, of course.

And I know a good bit about the foster care system, and I can tell you that good foster

parents are serving the heart of Jesus in a very special way. I can tell you that good foster parents are serving the heart of Jesus in a very

special way. I can promise you that. So many of you wanted me to talk about anxiety on this show,

and knowing a bit about what Jamie has struggled with for now 10 years, which you can read more

about in the show notes when we link that. I knew she would be someone who could powerfully speak into this.

For that reason, I've asked her to come on the daily and talk about this very real struggle

of anxiety and some of the things that for her have helped. Listen now as Jamie shares.

Perfectionism. It consumed every minute of the day for a large portion of my life.

I was convinced that if I couldn't measure up to the idealistic version of myself,

that I must not be worth anything to those around me.

If I'm honest, even God. While it wasn't the only

reason for my struggle with mental illness, it complicated the problem greatly. I'll never forget the

time I found myself crouched down in the basement of our church, waiting for yet another anxiety

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