Tag: Anxiety

• How to Be More Grateful and Make Your Marriage Stronger

  

  Being grateful is not an attitude and choice I easily make most days. Because I’m rather detail-oriented, my eye immediately goes to the visual imperfection or the disappointment in most situations. Yes! I’m rather embarrassed to admit I’m more of a glass-half-empty kind of gal. But I remember a story I read in middle school […]

  BethSteffaniak

  May 31, 2020

  About Me, Anxiety, Bible Study, Christ-Centered, Contentment, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith in God, God’s Redemption, Gratitude Inventory, Insight for 2020 Series, Joy, Love for God, Marriage, Negative Self-Talk, Pain, Perseverance, Perspective, Positive Focus, Prayer, Self-sacrifice, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practices, Thankfulness, Trials, Trust

  Anxiety, Anxious, Bible, Faith in God, Gratitude, Joy, Marriage, Prayer, Rejoice, Suffering, Thankfulness, Trials

• How Much Do You Trust God in Time of Crisis?

  

  With a pandemic coming ever-closer to our door, I felt like this was a perfect time to shift from a marriage focus, to a spiritual one of trusting God more. Rest assured, our trust in God is a marriage issue! [bctt tweet=”When we trust that God is for us, with us, empowering us, protecting and […]

  BethSteffaniak

  April 5, 2020

  About Me, Anxiety, Bible Study, Bible Study Tools, Choices, Christ-Centered, Commitment, Encouragement, Faith in God, Fear, Insight for 2020 Series, Love for God, Love of God, Marriage, Perseverance, Persevere in the Lord, Positive Focus, Prayer, Priorities, Self-awareness, Self-deception, Self-Reflection, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practices, Trust, Trust in God Inventory

  Anxiety, Bible Study, Courage, Crisis, Faith, Faith in God, Fear, Prayer, Surrender, Trust, Trust God, Trust in God

• 2 Devotionals Offering Encouragement and Relief

  

  Today I want to point you to some encouragement and relief by sharing two devotionals I’ve recently written, which are featured at two inspirational Christian sites. The first devotional starts off by pointing you to see the unseen. An impossible sounding task, I know! But read on to find out how … I’m about to […]

  BethSteffaniak

  August 30, 2018

  About Me, Acceptance, Anxiety, Bible Study, Christ-Centered, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith in God, Fear, Hope, Insecurity, Love of God, Patience, Perseverance, Perspective, Prayer, Relief, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practices, Thankfulness, Trials, Trust

  Anxiety, Faith, Faith in God, Patience, Prayer, Thankfulness, Wait on God

• Victim Love Style in Marriage And FMTM Linkup

  

  Here at Messy Marriage, I’ve talked about a “Victim Mentality” a lot over the years, but this isn’t necessarily what I’m talking about today. A victim mentality can develop in any person’s life regardless of their love style. A victim mentality is a fixation on a real or supposed victimizer in one’s life, feeling helpless […]

  BethSteffaniak

  November 29, 2016

  Abuse, Accountability, Addictions, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Codependency, Conflict, Emotions, Fear, From Messes to Messages Linkup, Openness, Pain, Parenthood, Prayer, Self-deception, Self-Protection, Toxic Baggage, Victim, Victim Mentality, Vulnerability, Withdrawal, Wounds

  Abuse, Addictions, Anxiety, Avoidance, Compliant, Detached, Fears, Prayer, Prayer journaling, Secrets, Victim, Vulnerability