Girlfriends, episode number 315, from worry to wonder with Melissa Overmeyer.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week we've got special guest author Melissa Overmeyer here to talk about her new book

all about going from worry to wonder based on scripture, an important book, an important

topic.

And I know you're going to enjoy this conversation.

Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? I hope that you're well. I'm so glad that you are able to join me

here today for this newest episode of The Girlfriend's Podcast. So the topic of Melissa

Overmire's book is Worry. And this is something I find that many of us

struggle with in various ways, and sometimes more intensely than others throughout our lifetimes.

Maybe you're going through a very difficult time right now and you're struggling with this

temptation to worry. And I find it's really helpful to think of it that way,

that worry is a temptation. We're tempted to worry. Sometimes we just feel like we're victims of it,

but I'm a big fan of reminding ourselves that we are the boss of our thoughts. We are in control of our

thoughts. And so if you're struggling right now

with something difficult and you are finding yourself tempted to worry, I hope that this conversation

is going to bless you. I hope that this new resource available from Melissa Overmeyer is going to be

a helpful resource for you. But I just want to encourage you to know that that isn't what God wants for you.

He reminds us, right, in the scriptures and this beautiful, you know, vividly described

passage in the Gospels where Jesus describes how, you know, the birds of the air don't

reap or so and the flowers of the field are not working for their living and yet God provides for them

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