Barbara: Hi, everyone. Welcome to 40 minutes of faith. My name is Barbara Cox and I host this weekly podcast to explore God's word and our relationship with God. Today's guest is Takita Geronimo and our topic is time. I met Chiquita at Fort drum, New York, where she's recently retired after serving active duty in the United States army for 24 years.
She's from Florida and through her military years, she lived in Germany, she was deployed five times and lived in five other states side locations, including Washington, California, and Georgia. Shaquita grew up going to church every Sunday and then as an adult, she rededicated her life to Christ. She just graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology and Chiquita is going to be going back to school
this fall for a master's in pastoral counseling. Welcome to Kieta. How are things for you today? Yay.
Chiquita: Things are gone well and good morning, Barbara.
Barbara: We have several different aspects of time to talk about today, starting with the Bible passage from Proverbs. I'm going to be reading chapter three, verses five and six. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, submit to him and he will make your paths straight.
Thank you so much for selecting this passage for us today, Chiquita. And I'm wondering if you can share why this verse is so precious to you.
Chiquita: This verse has been with me for a couple of years now, one that I go back and reference to because I had a problem with have a control over my life and wanting everything in place. I want to do this this day. At this time. I think I got that from the military service because we know what would work from the time we wake up until the time we get out. So I had to put that trust back in God. So when I trust in him, I don't have to worry about anything. When I seek him, he's going to direct my path.
Barbara: We have some balancing act to talk about today because we want to honor God for sure and trust in God, for sure. And then sometimes on earth, we just need to do things to the best of our ability, in terms of our schedule. For example, going to work, you were active duty for many years. You were a parent and you were also a college student. How did you prayerfully seek to balance your time with God? You got to get to work at a certain time where you're going to get in trouble. You got to get your school assignments done, unless maybe there's a serious reason to not get them done, as well as taking care of your family.
How did you approach that, Chiquita?
Chiquita: in the mornings, I try to get up to do my devotion, but when I was on active duty before going to PT, sometimes it may not be that way. Sometimes I have to get it in after PT or on my lunch break or even in the afternoon. So it all depends on the dynamics of my day.
But I prefer to do it in the morning before I start my day, because once we get started, we never know what may happen.
Barbara: And probably most people know in military speak PT is your exercise time, not necessarily physical therapy, but we do want to talk about making time for doctor's appointments also.
When you retired from the military, all of a sudden you had your day wide open and not as much structure as that was provided. And for me, it was moving around to some different locations where I wasn't able to find paid employment in those locations. And that's applicable to a lot of military families as they travel around. How did you settle into any kind of a routine when you had all this open time, but you still had a lot of stuff you had to take care of?
Chiquita: Well, being that we have a family, you know, you have to consider the family time and especially with COVID virtual learning or half days what I would try to do is, and what I do is just.
Look at my schedule, what I have going on. I'm still in school. So doing continuing education. So I try to see what works best for me. So classes in the mornings work best for me after I get up and I do my devotion, trying to do my classes in the morning. So it frees up the afternoon for appointments, errands, house chores.
And then in the evening time with my family.
Barbara: Did you set up any sort of tools to help you be organized? Or can you just like remember everything? Cause I, for sure can't. I like to have a schedule, but I know not everybody wants to have a schedule or wants to give themselves a schedule
if they don't have that kind of structure in their day,
Chiquita: I have to have a planet. Some people use their phone, but I have, because I'm visual. Let me see what's going on. So from the time I wake up until the evening, I have an idea of what I have going on, so I can be able to look at my day and say, okay, well, I know I'm in classes in the morning, I'm studying in the morning.
So in the afternoon I have an appointment at this time. I have my women's group at this time. And then I need to start cooking at this time. So I'm able to live at my schedule and look at my days to see what I have going on for each day. And Dan have to have a glimpse of the whole week.
So I know if I need to adjust some things around because other things may come up. But being able to see what I have going on. And, we just finished PWC, Protestant, women of the chapel that we had classes on Tuesday morning. So I knew on Tuesday mornings that was open for our women's ministry.
So my classes would start in the afternoon. So being able to adjust as other things is added to our daily live.
Barbara: And one thing that I did that helped me is I actually made a checklist for myself. I had a schedule, but I put a checklist inside a page protector, and you can laminate it , whatever works for you. So then say I had class on Tuesday and I knew I wanted to finish my homework on Monday. So I would put, finished my homework on Monday. There's just a sense of satisfaction for me when I can put a check mark. On the line next to the thing that I need doing. So just for me, that helped.
And I actually ended up having to also put on that checklist a certain amount of time away from the computer every day. Cause I ended up feeling kind of stressed out. Not all of my stuff is on the computer, but a lot of it was, and I was sitting for hours in front of the computer and I just said, I need to space things apart.
Throwing in a load of laundry or going for a walk to not be in front of my computer. Cause then I was getting really grumpy and stressed out. So I'm wondering if you have any thoughts about self-care Chiquita? How can we honor God by taking care of ourselves while we also have a lot of things that need to get done?
Chiquita: I think self care is very important. That was something I had to learn maybe about seven or eight years ago because I was busy, busy, busy. But self care is vital. And not take time for yourself, you'll feel like you say grumpy. By the time the evening come and it's time for your children. It's time for your spouse.
You don't have time for them. So you have to take that time out to relax. Whether it's a walk, whether it's listening to music, if you love coloring or drawing, whatever you love to do, whatever brings you joy or whatever brings you peace. That's something that you have to do. I love walking and listening to music, or I just listen to music within the house. But self care it's very important. And I know in our community we have a lot of homeschool moms. So being able to take that break in the middle of the day. So having an upstanding period, like during your planning period, take time out, I would take 15 minutes out. So yeah. I can just take this time for me so that I can regroup.
Let me get pulled out my devotional and read something that replenished me so I can go back and take care of my children and take care of the daily tasks that I have to do.
Barbara: One of my favorite websites that I want to recommend is from a very kind woman. It's called fly lady.net. And you can see the story of why she calls herself fly lady.
And if you don't like cleaning like me, she has a routine that's on her website, that's for free and you can get emails. But she really says you do some cleaning and then you take a break and then you go back and do something else and you take that time to rejuvenate yourself.
And it's certainly in the Bible. We've had other episodes about Sabbath. But just in terms of when things are unstructured, I grew up like, you take care of your stuff first. You can like relax later some other time. But what if your to-do list is never done? Then, how do you figure out how am I going to say is it okay for me to take this time for myself? It's okay.
Chiquita: We need it for ourselves and we need a proper family. And even when we going out and interacting with other people, if we're tired, if we're depleted, we can't give them our best and we can't perform at our best love.
So it's best for us to take time out well, it's 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes mine in time within our day so that we could take a break and just relax.
Barbara: I'm really glad you said the words, timeout and rest. Because my first social work boss actually taught all the people who work there, that if you're in a setting with other people, you can take a time out in a bathroom and you don't have to tell people that you're taking the time out in a bathroom.
You can just say, excuse me, I need to use the restroom. Now I know some folks have little kids and they're like, oh great, we'll go with you to the bathroom. So that might not feel like a timeout, depending on if you have young children near you. But you also said rest. And so sleep is something we haven't talked about yet that it's okay to set limits around your schedule, even around sleeping.
That may feel impossible to some folks because I know people want to just do what needs to be done. And even if it means staying up late at night. Do you have a routine for kind of shutting things down at night for yourself Chiquita, to get enough rest?
Chiquita: Yes I do- in the evening, I would say around about six, six 30, because by then my son has finished plan and talking to his friends.
So that's our time. And unless it's important, I try not to take phone calls because that's me and my son's time. For us to discuss how his day went, how my day went and just sit around and play games and look at TV. So I went to even put my phone on, do not disturb because I have family in California.
I have them all over the United States. So they may call because they're up and they may think I'm up because I'm retired when no, I'm sleeping. So I try to go to bed about an hour after my son goes to bed because I have to wake up before he does so that we can start out day. So just having that times where, Hey, this evening time is for me and my family, so that I can see how they do it.
So I can spend time with them because if you think about it, and if you add up the hours in the day, from the time the spouses get home from the time the kids get home from school or finished for homeschool,
you only have about three to four hours before it's time to go to bed. So, and within the three to four hours, you prepare dinner, you're cleaning up. People are getting their bath. So that time is even shorter. So it's so important to make sure you have that family time in the evening and just make sure your other family know, make sure your friends know that Hey.
You know, in the evening, I try to give that time to my children, to my spouse. And everybody should be doing that. So if everybody's spending family time, nobody should be trying to do it.
Barbara: Yeah. I'm so glad you said you set your phone on do not disturb because I thought I was weird that I started doing that.
Actually, when we lived in Germany, there was an even bigger time change with the east coast and people would just forget and yeah. If you're working, you know, if you're emergency on call, then you have to take calls. But if you're not emergency on call and people just forget the time difference, and they're calling you at two in the morning and that's disruptive.
So that is a limit that can be set unless you have a really strong reason of why you can't do that. But to let people know. And that brings me to another recommendation that I wanted to make. There's a Bible study called the best yes that was written by Lisa TerKeurst. And that talks about how we can say yes to 10 wonderful ministry opportunities.
But if we are maxed out and are not able to take care of our families and ourselves, this Bible study really talks about when is it okay to say no to a perfectly good opportunity? Because we're saying yes to something else. Did you ever have that situation Chiquita where you needed to set some limits around a wonderful opportunity because you already had enough on your plate?
Chiquita: Yes. Yes. I had to learn that. I think it was about 2016 because I love helping people. I love being out. So if somebody needed help, I'm there, you know, whether I'm pushing what I need to do to the side, but I had to learn to say, no, well, I can't do it today, but let me see what the remainder week look like.
Or no, I won't be able to do it this time. So being able to say no and being at peace and being okay with your note is very important. And again, if we make sure that our family and our friends understand the dynamics of our lives, because what we have to realize is my life structure, my home structure and system is different from your home structure and system.
So the responsibilities that I have and the responsibilities that you have, or another fellow may have, may be different. So therefore I may not be able to do what you can do because being on active duty, being a student, being a mom that takes a lot of your time.
So I'm not going to be able to do what another woman may be able to do that's not in school, right. Because they don't have that extra responsibility right of studying. Or when we talk about ministry, if I'm serving in a position within a ministry, I have to make sure I take time out, slack of prepare myself so that I can do whatever God has called me to do concerning this ministry.
So my time may be limited to the outside. One of the things that I picked up from one of my mentors was whatever you ask her for, she always say, let me go back and pray about it. So you're not different than me. Yes. And you're not giving them a no.
That gives you time to go back and see God to see Lord, do I have time to add this in my schedule? One. And to Laura, is this something that you want me to do? Because every good thing may not be what God may be calling you to do in this season and in this time of your life. So it's so important for us to say, Hey, I have to go back and pray about it, or let me talk to my spouse.
Let me see what my kids have gone on because whatever they have going on, may conflict with what somebody else may be asking you to do.
Barbara: And it is okay to set those limits. Saying yes all the time doesn't make us better people of faith or even necessarily better human beings.
And it's okay to say not during this season, or you said maybe later this week. Maybe at the end of the semester, depending on what applies to you. And this actually is a good time for our second Bible verse that could be related in some way to what we're talking about in John chapter 10, John is one of the books in the gospel.
So it's in the new Testament towards the back of your Bible. Verse 10 says a thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so that they can have real and eternal life. More and better life than they ever dreamed of. And I'm thinking about how can our time be stolen away from us when Jesus is talking about real and eternal life, what does this passage mean to you?
To Canada?
Chiquita: When we are consumed and so many things would deplete it. So when we're depleted, depending on people, mental capacity and mental state that could lead to depression, that could lead to arguments in the home, that could lead to not being there for the children in the home. So then your children feel alone, your children feel abandoned, your husband feel not wanted.
So what happens, the relationship is destroyed, right? And that's not what God wants for us. You know, he came so that we can have life and so that we can live right. So we need to live our best life and living our best life is getting instructions, directions and wise counsel from God each and every day.
And within our family consultant those within our family so that we know that, Hey, this is what we're doing, or this is what God has called us to do. So if everyone is on one accordance, everyone is in compliance with what we're trying to do as a family. Then we can move forward knowing that, Hey, this is what our household, what God has called us to do in this season
and this time. Because being too busy, the little small things us trying to help, it can take away from our family. It can take away from our household where our household is, our first ministry, right?
So how are we ministering to our husband? How are we ministering to our children? And I know growing up, my grandmother used to always tell us, you have to take care of home first. You have to take care of home first. You have to help home first because if your home is okay, then you have the resources and the ability to go and help someone else.
And be okay with it.
Barbara: Did you ever have a time when you were kind of struggling to discern what God was calling you to do? Because on the one hand I am fully supportive of setting limits and saying, this is what I can do, and this is what I can't do, but I'm also aware it might sound unkind. People might say, well, you don't care about anybody else if you're always saying no. How do you figure out, is this something that God is asking me to do right now? Or maybe this is not the right season for me to be picking up this additional.
Chiquita: For me, it's the presence of peace that, that I get from God. So if I know it's something that God is calling me to do what I'm not doing it. He'll keep bringing it up in my mind. That's how he works with me. That's my relationship with him. Now, if it's something that I know I should be doing an add on stuff.
That's when I stopped feeling anxious. That's when I stopped worrying. And I know for me, with my relationship with him, that's what I had. So. Okay. Well, Hey, that's not what he wants me to do right now. And even thinking about what has God called us to do? Like what path, what destiny does God have us on?
So if we know that, if we know who we are in a group, and we know what guy has called us to do, then we want to accept anything that's gonna hinder the movement and the direction that God has taken us to. And it's so important for us to spend that time with him because yes, God, he comes in. And he may take us on a different path where we thought we was going this way, and this is the path that we were on.
He may come in and do something different because sometimes he want to see, okay, are you going to trust me when I take you this route? Right? Cause this is about seeing too comfortable, this route seeing too easily. Let me see if you're going to trust me. So going back to him and praying and seeing God, okay, is this the route that you're taking me to and being okay with it?
And we have to understand as believers in the body of Christ, that everyone has a different maturity level. So what other people may not be in agreement or they may be upset. I look at it as they're not mature in that area of their lives and I'm okay. So I know. Okay. I'm okay for them. And hopefully God will reveal to them what he has called me to do.
But then okay with what God has called us to do is so important because people going to see our gifts, people gonna see our talents. So yeah, they're going to want to use this because we can bring something good to the ministry, but that may not be what God wants us to be at this time. He may want somebody else in that position.
So it's so important. Lift your weight and pray and see, okay, God is this where you're calling me to? And he will let us know that he'll let us know.
Barbara: sometimes it might be, Hey, nobody else is doing this. We really, really need you. And that's one of the reasons why it helps me to have a schedule.
And I completely agree with you about prayer and discernment. But if I've got, say, for example, my homework or my Bible study or this ministry or that thing on my calendar already, and I'm looking, okay, someone needs a ride to the doctor and absolutely yes, I can do it and it'll take a few hours and we had a great time.
But if there's other stuff, how do you prioritize? Prayer and discernment is one way, if you have a schedule and obviously someone in your family gets sick and needs to go to the emergency room, that's not optional. But if someone says, Hey, can I have a ride somewhere? And you're taking a look at some structure that you have in place, and even putting your exercise time on your calendar is another technique. You don't have to justify to people, in terms of maturity, you don't have to explain, no, I need to go to the gym because I have a medical situation or a health situation, or I need a doctor's appointment and then they want to know what your doctor's appointment is for.
You don't have to get into all that stuff. You can just say I'm really sorry. I can't. And we talked a little bit about rest and taking care of ourselves, but how about even prioritizing our own medical stuff? Sometimes it takes a lot of effort and advocacy to get those appointments and to figure it out. And you're kind of low on energy. How do you prioritize the gift that God has given us in our field physical bodies?
Chiquita: Taking care of temple is important as well as taking care of family, taking care of things within our community. We had to take care of ourselves first because how can we work? How can we serve? We're not our best, right? So it's important for us to ensure that we're taking time out to do a meal plan. What am I going to eat this week? Do I have everything in my refrigerator that I need to eat so that I can eat healthy and I'm not stopping at the fast food, or I'm not picking up Popeye's every night or I'm not going to dominoes? What day am I going to the grocery store?
So then I can make sure that me and my family has the meals that we need so that we can be healthy. And also what days within the week am I going to take time out to go and exercise? It's like an appointment. So that's written in my schedule as well. You know, certain days I work out in the morning and certain days I work out in the afternoon.
So. What days am I going to designate for working out, getting out, walking, riding my bicycle, going to the gym or for those that have equipment or likes to go on YouTube to find a video on YouTube. So yes, that time has to be carved out because it's so important that we take care of our bodies and have time for exercise have time to arrests, have time to prep our food so that we're eating healthy.
Barbara: And lest anyone think that we're perfect. Cause I'll be the first to say I am far from perfect. I use a timer for a couple of different things and I got this idea from flylady.net
I don't mind using a timer for my break and I'm just goofing off I'm online or whatever, but I also can use a timer for things that I don't like to do because one of the recommendations from fly lady is you don't have to clean for five hours without stopping, just clean for a certain period of time and then stop.
And do as much as you can and then do something different. And that might be an unusual way of looking at things, but it is effective for me.
Chiquita: one of my downfalls that I'm trying to improve on, I hate checking emails. So I try to even have time where I'm gonna sit down and I'm gonna check my emails. I'm gonna try to respond to everybody. I call it my office time where I'm checking my emails, responding my mail, filing things. And this year that I was like, okay, I have to improve on because when it comes to checking emails and now that I'm a civilian.
That's how everybody communicate through emails versus face-to-face, that's have a meeting in the morning, let's have a meeting in the afternoon. So just time to get better at checking my email, filing and doing the stuff that I have to, the administrative part of what in a household.
Barbara: for some folks, it might be the opposite too much time, either on social media. But if you need to set limits around online shopping or social media or something like that, because it's taking your focus away from other things that need to be focused on that support. Or playing solitaire or something like that. Do you have any websites or books or sources besides the Bible that have really helped you to figure this stuff out?
Chiquita: A planner has been my best friend for the last three years, whether you use your phone or whether you can have from the store, I believe in having a planner. And then just like you said, having a list. So I have my weekly planner up on my wall, then I have my list of the things that I need to check off and I need to accomplish on the side of the table.
So I make sure I have that and then also pouring into yourself. So what self-care books are you reading? I try to read one new book every month. So this month, I'm reading commanding your morning by Cindy Trimm. And so where I'm at right now, she's talking about just being positive. You know, renewing your mind and thinking of those things, which are positive.
Okay, because that can change our mood. If we're thinking negative things, then we can be in a negative mood. But if we're thinking about positive things, if we're focusing on the things that God has called us to do, and being intentional is so important. So just finding a devotional or a self-help book where you pointed to yourself, and I don't like to read, so for me, this is like a new thing, like reading a book every month, because it's important. Because we give so much to other people, but what are we doing and given to ourselves. A local women's group, because we grow and we learn from each other. The Bible says iron shopping hours. And so connecting with your local women's group is so important. And just getting out of being involved with the community. You know, we do stuff, you know, so whether it's once a week, once a month, you have that time away from children where you can just talk to other women, right.
And learn from other women, get tips and tools from other women that has the same mindset as you, which is the mindset of price.
Barbara: And I want to affirm that there are many benefits that can come from any type of Bible study. So if you're in a co-ed group, there's nothing wrong with that. But I believe what we have experienced is that there's really something special when women hang out in a faith based setting, that there's more open conversation and say, even prayer requests.
Or help me understand this in my own faith walk, and that might not happen in a co-ed Bible study. So we just want to affirm that there's different ways and not every place has separate women's ministries, but we really do want to encourage that. And what if you could even start one yourself, it doesn't have to be a huge group of people.
It could just be three or four people together and even online, if it has to be it folks away from each other. Yeah.
Chiquita: And that's how I started when I was at Fort Bragg. we would meet on Friday nights at Starbucks and we would go through a book together.
We weren't doing books, a devotional together every Friday night. You know, the kids is at one table and the adults was at another table. So. Being able to do that. Yeah.
Barbara: Great. There's a huge list of resources on the podcast website, which is 40 minutes of faith.com.
There's a resources tab and there's tons of books and Bible studies that are recommended there. Just if you're looking for a place to start, but there's so much out there. Some things you need to purchase, and then there's also free resources.
I love having structure. I need it. I like having a routine and I know there's people who hate routines, who just think that that's not really a great idea. Can you speak to the benefits of why are we thinking about this stuff ahead of time? Cause you can just go through your day, you have no idea
what's next. That's fine. We're not judging, but how can it help to keep a focus?
Chiquita: To make sure that you're not missing anything to ensure that you're not late to what you have to do next, because it's not written down. You're not saying that you not getting a reminder. And also it holds you accountable.
It holds you accountable to yourself and not only yourself because other people may be pulling, Hey, let's go here. Let's do this. If you know what should have done, you could say, well, no, I can't do that because I have to do. A B and C this ethanol, and I won't have time to complete the things I need to complete because I'm going with you.
So just being able to say, Hey this is what I have going on and you don't even have to sit with it, but just having a generalized view of what you're going to do with each day, because things do come up. But we need to know what's important for Thursday. What do I need to do on Thursday
that's important that I cannot put off till Friday. So that's why I haven't structure is important for those that don't believe in instruction.
Barbara: Yeah. And I really agree with you about meal planning. When I don't do meal planning and I'm just standing there thinking what in the world am I going to fix
today it really helps. at least if you know, okay, this is what I think I'm going to make. This is what I'm need to buy. Cause I'm also looking and then it becomes a financial thing. Okay. I already have a bunch of say pasta or rice in my pantry. I don't need to buy anymore or, oh, okay.
I just ran out. I do need to get some more. If I want to cook some healthy foods. And have a list and then it's up to you. If you want to go ahead and do that the way you had it planned out. But if I don't do menu planning, then it's usually not looking so good in the health department for healthy eating for the rest of the week.
Do you have any others tips or suggestions in terms of balancing our time to honor God in our lives, as well as taking care of practical things?
Chiquita: Just seek God daily. As Kim Lord, what's important that you have for me to do to today. Be okay with saying no, and as God make adjustments in our lives, trust what he's doing, trust what he's doing, because he has us on this faith journey.
And not only that, he knows our. And so he knows our future. And if we are live by him, we're going to accomplish everything that he has for us to accomplish.
Barbara: Yup. Do you pray in different ways to kill it? In other words, do you sometimes pray with spoken words? Do you ever write your prayers? Is it just silent in your heart sometimes?
Chiquita: I pray silently in my heart. I pray out loud. I pray on my knees. I pray walk in and I have several prayer focuses on my wall, not only for me, but for my children as well, because they want to be intentional without words. And we want to be intentional with ensuring that we are praying God's words over our children.
Speaking life, because it's so important to speak life because God is working in each and every one of us. And even for our spouses, because God shows us the imperfections within ourselves, as well as the imperfections in our spouses and our children. So we have to go back and say, what does God say about my spouse?
What does God say about my children? So taking time out to write those prayers out and right. Vitamin a descriptions. Because God's word is true, right? His word is true. His word never lie. So I'm going to pray God's word over my children. And for those that are married, pray God's word over your spouse and believe it, believe it.
And walk in faith, not looking at what may be going on today, but looking at who God says your spouses and who God says your children is. And even ourselves whole guys say that I am. I'm chosen. So when I say that, it just brings so much love within my heart to know that he chose me.
So we know who we are. And whose we are, we know that we can accomplish anything. So even right now, those prayers, and right now, those affirmations concerning ourselves and saying them over and over again, until we believe what God was saying as concerned ourselves, because who we are today is not who God has called us to be because he's working in that daily.
Daily he's working in us. So we may not do our best today. And we may not do nothing. And that's okay. Because as long as you know how to get back up and get back into starting our day and putting God first, he going to continue to work in us because that's what his word says and his word is true. And I believe it.
Barbara: we watched the movie war room when I was in Germany with the Protestant women of the chapel group, and we were laughing because they don't have closets in Germany, they have these wardrobe things that are outside the wall. So you open it up and you hang stuff, but it's not like a walk-in closet. But we just love that idea of having your prayers written on the wall in your closet, but it doesn't have to be in a closet. It can be on a door. And one of the Bible studies, I think it was fervent that I did by Priscilla Shirer had cards in the back of the book to tear out and write your prayers on, but you don't need cards in a Bible study, just any notebook, paper, or index cards, because when you see it taped on your wall, like you said, then it comes more to your mind. And then it's easier to see when those prayers are answered.
When a situation is resolved, even if it was such a struggle at the time. And even if it's still a situation now, you can see answers of how God has provided for those situations.
Chiquita: And then also, I just want to add it all have to be in a closet. Because I looked at my time in my dad, his areas, slack off is so unwelcome, walled.
I have nothing but prayer requests, affirmations. And on the other wall, I have pictures of my children and I wrote down the scriptures concerning them and prayers concerning them. Because this is what I spend the majority of my time in this area.
Barbara: The Bible is full of amazing scripture passages and also prayers. Thank you so much for your time today.
Chiquita: Barbara, I really enjoyed myself and thank you for having me.
Resources:
Proverbs 3:5-6
John 10:10
Commanding your Morning by Cindy Trimm
The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst
Fervent by Priscilla Shirer
