I know I wrote a lot about finding peace during my first two days of this challenge and that has not changed but today's devotional is bringing that back again.
"The mind of sinful man is death, but mind controlled by the Spirit is for life and peace." Romans 8:6
"A sinful mind doesn't have to mean a mind filled with pornography, addiction or adultry. A sinful mind can be a mind that has given up hope or a mind that is dwelling on negative thoughts. We must get on our knees and pray for the Holy Spirit to fill us. Pray for peace to be restored. God does not tear our mind down with negative thoughts, satan does." (Medina 27)
Kathy talks about how difficult it has been to find peace in a house with an Autistic Child and I have had times where I felt the same way. There have been many days I have locked myself in the bathroom to cry because I have given up and don't know what else to do...pleading with God to make the tantrums stop! I truely have only found peace when Monkey is sleeping and even then I am going over all the events of the day in my head and cleaning the house rather then relaxing. I love and adore my son but he all by himself is more than a full time job and when you have a husband that works 12+ hours a day and another child to care for, life can be rough. Negative thoughts creep in and a glass of wine sounds like the perfect anicdote to my rough day but since starting this challenge I have definately found much more comfort in the word then my glass of wine ever gave me. Filling my mind with scripture every night has given me so much peace and I am so much more relaxed through out the day. The calm scripture brings last much longer then anything I have done in the past to "heal" (gym, break time, wine :))
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