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  1. I am such a control freak in a house full of control freaks. Thank you for sharing!!

  2. Nichole Scott says:

    Control has completely run my life up until a few months ago, it’s exausting and very unfulfilling…….. what I relief to let go and give it to the Lord!!! Such an awesome journey this has already been, very much looking foward to the rest of this month!

  3. Thank you for laying open all the details, painful as they may be. I knew some of the issues, but not all of the background behind them. One of my …um…selfish thoughts is “I could have been a better friend to that 16 year old Cheri.” Then I look at the whole of the Purse-onlity Challenge, and laugh at that thought. We were what we were with the facts we were given and the level of friendships we were given. I was dealing with many of my own control issues and growing pains. I chose to control mine in a different way. It is only through God’s wonderful grace that we are here and working on this challenge. I’m so glad that I have been released from controlling my life. God is so good!

  4. So many things in my life have been out of my control so I find myself trying to control the things I can. It’s not healthy. Thank you for posting this!

  5. Being in control….It wasn’t until my son was diagnosed with cancer that I realized this was something I couldn’t fix…I was always able to fix his car run a fuel line, fix a hose, talk to his teachers, leave money for him in the middle of the night, I could fix it all…But not this it was the day we were driving back from the hospital and all I could do was cry …and my son said “Mom why are you crying? you told me God is going to take care of me why are you crying?”….in that moment I realized God was in Control not me …it was time to give it all to him and believe…He was the only one that could fix this and he did …my whole life changed…I am so thankful for such a loving amazing God.

  6. Awesome testimony! I think yesterday’s “forgiveness” and today’s “free” go hand in hand. Jesus has freed us but we can still act like prisoner’s because of our unwillingness to forgive someone else or more importantly ourselves. (We are our own worst enemies!) If we can truly surrender and forgive ourselves then we can really experience the freedom He has already given us.

  7. Thanks for sharing. That is a very powerful story. I feel as if I need to be in control all the time, but I need to let that notion go and let and trust God.

  8. Wow – this brought back some memories from high school! I took two years of voluntary summer school math so that I could take Calculus during my senior year.

  9. Thank you for sharing your story. It has stuck home for me. I try to be super mom/wife and just last week my husband said you can’t be supermom for too much longer without crashing. Time to step back and readjust.

  10. Just discovered this study today and WOW! This entry really hits home with me. Thank you for sharing.

  11. Anonymous says:

    Thanks so much for sharing. I too struggle with being the good girl, even now as a wife and mother. I go around trying to please everybody. While I havent struggled with anorexia, I decided to go the opposite direction and eat everything in site. As a result, I have horrible health issues to face. Thanks for your encouragement.

  12. Vanessa Perez says:

    The day my son was diagnosed with a mild form of autism was the lowest point in my life. The pain was bigger than anything. The day I decided to leave it all to Jesus he set me free , very soon after that I stated seen improvement in my son. When we give Him control, our stories no longer dwell on condemnation. When we give Him control, our stories celebrate belonging. When we give Him control, our stories overflow with the power of the life-giving Spirit. When we give Him control, we will have good news to tell and re-tell: our stories of how Jesus has set us free!

  13. Anonymous says:

    I grew up in a house where my parents fought all of the time and when I was 6 years old they split up. My sister and I were split up too having to live with a parent and their boyfriend or girlfriend. It was so hard! My parents did reconcile and we lived together as a family again but life was not fun for me. I spent a lot of time by myself. I didn’t have friends as I tried not to be hurt anymore. During my teenage years my parents fighting got worse and my mom and sister were fighting all of the time too. My sister rebelled and the only things I could do were be a good girl by getting straight A’s, cleaning, and being quiet. God spared me of so many things while growing up. Many of them I have just come to realize in the past few years. Now after almost 39 years of marriage my parents have divorced and gone their own ways. I’m broken on the inside and the healing has begun but I know that it will only come with His help. I don’t want to be perfect anymore…I just want to be the best wife, mom, sister, and daughter that I can be.

  14. Because my very young parents had enough troubles of their own, I learned early on that I wasn’t supposed to be any trouble or have any problems at all. This caused me to begin to live a double life as a young child – perfect on the outside, but completely broken and alone on the inside. I’m still working at overcoming my melancholy need for perfection. 🙂

  15. Thank you for sharing your story – our God is an AWESOME God!! Perfection is a trap that I’ve set for myself (or that Satan has persuaded me to set) time and time again. But, God DELIGHTS in ME – WOW, I needed to hear that today! Thank you Jesus!

  16. Thank you for sharing your difficult story. I am so similar to you in that I strive to be in control. If only…I could achieve this…then….I often feel like a failure in my parenting because I can’t control my child. I know that is such wrong thinking. I am giving God control!

  17. Anonymous says:

    WOW!!! That is an amazing story. Praise Jesus for His deliverance. He is so good. I loved today’s post. Sarah

  18. Thank you and God for your work,My Husband and I have been talking about the very same things stepping back and living a quite life.To much going on in this world that really distracts us from whats important …

  19. Anonymous says:

    Thank you for sharing that! It had such an impact on me!

  20. This spoke to my heart. I just love that God can supernaturally use His Word to speak what we need to hear, when we need to hear it! (BTW, I looked up Ps 19 and it should be ch 18. Love those verses!

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