I have a couple of questions from the book, Teachers of Good Things, Elements of Christian Womanhood.

It's available in the shop at Keep the Heart. But here's some think about it questions. Have you ever

lost your composure, your temper, or any other form of your emotional control over failed plans?

Or how about this? Have you ever gone home crying from something that was meant to be happy

because a detail or two didn't go the way you wanted it to go? Are you overly sensitive?

Well, you may be suffering from something more than a lack of temperance. You may be a drama mama.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.

Now, back to today's important study.

Public displays of emotional distress are becoming so common that we are mistaken common for normal.

Common is not necessarily normal. God has given all of us the same opportunity to develop the fruit of the spirit, which includes that fruit of temperance. Temperance is either going to

make things better for us, or the lack of it will make us a woman who has a lot of trouble

controlling her emotions. This is such an intemperate society where a lack of

self-control is really just explained away or else it's written off as hormones or a character

flaw, but the truth is we lose control by choice, not by some organic health accident. Are you a drama

mama? Do you have drama going on in your life right now?

Drama is mainly a distraction designed to keep our focus on trivial matters. And those distractions

can keep us from becoming all that God wants us to be. When we're engaged in drama, we're not

gracious women. Are you a drama mama?

Let's look at some characteristics and we'll check and see.

Sometimes we don't see it because we have secret faults that God sees better than we do.

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