Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday, where we air the most popular episodes from the previous season.

The episode about signs of a controlling person received thousands of downloads over the year

and continues to be a favorite. It's such a common area of struggle, isn't it? Let's give this topic

another listen. My sister Janelle and I were on the topic of how we have to battle the temptation of getting

so worked up over things.

And then she said this, well, it took us a lot of years to get to this level of high strungness.

High strungness is my new favorite homemade phrase. Too bad it's an undesirable one. She was right,

though. We had years of practice at being high-strung, which is really a cover phrase for a person

who's controlling. The desire to control the outcomes and people in our lives is a very common temptation.

It's also flawed, and it runs through the fabric of our lives, making us tense and anxious. Why would

anyone want to be high-strung and controlling on purpose.

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.

I don't think we really want to be controlling. It's more like a tendency that comes with our carnal nature, and it feeds off of imaginations that we know what's best. How can we imagine that

we're in control when we can't even tell ourselves what to do? I mean, how many times if you said to

yourself, don't say it? And then you went ahead and blurted out the statement that led to an argument.

We can't even bus ourselves around. Being in control of life's circumstances

is an illusion and a delusion. We can trick ourselves into believing that if we manipulate situations

just right, things will turn out according to our desires. The problem with this plot is that

we're out of line. People with

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