Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from previous seasons.

What does it take to get you irritated? Are they big things or small matters? A lot of times

for many of us, it's the small stuff that trips us up. And this episode, inserting calm into

daily pressures, is designed to help us to take a step back and look at these

things through different lenses. Let's listen again. The bill arrived in the mail and it said that my

payment was overdue. Impossible since I had prepaid for a year's worth of service from the pest control

company. I was told by my friends not to try to live in Florida

without pest control, so it was one of the first things I did. The bugs down here are so big,

they almost need taillights. It wasn't long before the real pest was the pest control company

itself.

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.

This was a small stress, this overdue notice, but I could feel myself reacting to it. Have you ever had that happen? You can sense that you are starting to have a reaction and it's negative. It took several phone calls

and emails and you know those are never short phone calls. You're on hold. Push this button,

push that button. And then you have to talk to an automated system and on and on and on and on.

So then that just adds to the irritation. The company didn't even want to admit they'd done anything wrong,

but I had a record. Thankfully, I had a record that they certainly had taken that payment.

I knew it would eventually work out because I had a credit card statement that showed it had

been paid in full, but it was still irritating. You know what I mean? And the irritation was caused by such a non-critical

matter. That caused me to question myself. Why was I allowing this to become a big deal? Maybe it's because

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