The 3AM Cycle.

I woke up at 3 cold again and realized that the duraflame heater had crapped out on me. So I was up. Stressed. Our furnace went out yesterday day and we're just trying to keep the house warm enough until we can figure out our next steps. Which we aren't sure what that looks like right now.

Obviously, my mind started racing. What am I going to do? How are we going to stay warm? It's 3AM for goodness sake and I'm worrying myself to death over something I can't control. It's an 'it is what it is' situation. While I was on my mary-go-round of over dramatics, God reminded me of a conversation I just recently had with someone about my thoughts.

I told this person that God's word tells us to take our thoughts captive. Which means being imprisoned or confined. Here I am stressing over this furnace and how I'm going to make it work again. Over and over, stressing myself out. God said, "Hold up Deb. You can't dish out information and not take it yourself." I had to try to take that thought and realize that I couldn't do anything about it and move on. I had to rest.

Then God reminded me of the second portion of that conversation, which was about Philippians 4:8.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

I had to start thanking God for what I had. I have a house with a roof over my head. Which is more than some people. We have to make sure that we are focusing on whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable. It's not always hard because we can get consumed with our situations or circumstances that we forget what God has done. Spend some time each day thanking God for something. We easily forget the good things God does sometimes.