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September 03, 2024
How to Fight Anxiety with Joy
You know the feeling… worry snowballing into panic, debilitating stress literally harming your health.
It’s the crushing weight of anxiety. Anxiety can make everyday tasks difficult. It can make ordinary challenges seem insurmountable. It robs you of peace, sleep, confidence, and productivity. Anxiety robs you of life. But God offers relief from your fears, hope in your heartache, and yes…even joy in your anxiety.
Author and Speaker, Linda Buxa, shares insights from her new devotional How to Fight Anxiety with Joy.
God loves you and has an amazing plan to give you joy – now and eternally.
Also, being grateful can help calm your anxious mind. Shawna’s negative thoughts were swirling around in her head like a tornado. Thinking about what she was grateful for in that moment brought clarity to the chaos.
IN THIS EPISODE
Linda Buxa
Linda Buxa is a freelance communications professional as well as a regular blogger and contributor to the multimedia ministry Time of Grace. In addition to How to Fight Anxiety With Joy, Linda is the author of many devotions and other books on parenting and living faithfully. She and her husband, Greg, have lived in Alaska, Washington D.C., and California. After Greg retired from the military, they moved to Wisconsin, where they settled on 11.7 acres and now keep track of chickens, multiple cats, and a Black Lab. Their three children insisted on getting older and exploring what God has planned for their lives, so Greg and Linda are now empty nesters. The sign in her kitchen sums up their lives: “You call it chaos; we call it family.”
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Perry LaHaie
Perry LaHaie's passion is to know Jesus and make Him known. “I’m all in with Jesus but not all put together. I need Jesus right now as much as I did when I first started following Him!” Perry says. In addition to co-hosting Perry and Shawna Mornings, Perry is a singer, songwriter, recording artist, and advocate for those who haven’t yet heard the gospel, especially those in the Muslim world. Born and raised in northern Michigan, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications and a graduate degree in Cross- cultural Communications. Perry also serves with Frontiers, a worldwide ministry to Muslims. Perry and his bride, Teresa, call Holland, Michigan home. They have two adult children, Kali and Taylor, and Taylor’s bride, Bri.
Shawna Beyer
Shawna Beyer has a way of telling stories that create personal connection— to her, to one another, and to God. She has been a homeschool mom, church planter, project lead for a consulting company, and church staff member. Though she’s been involved in ministry with her husband (Dan) in Iowa, Arizona, and now Michigan, she was born and raised in Southern California and as they say, “You can take the girl out of California . . .” She is mom to four grown kids (Bryn, Drayson, Eden, and Haven) who no longer need her but humor her anyway. Shawna is passionate about the rhythms we weave into the fabric of our lives to fall more in love with God each day. Healthy foods are her go-to, but she will abandon that whole track in a heartbeat for a homemade cinnamon roll like Grandma used to make.
Perry and Shawna Mornings
The Perry and Shawna Podcast: Real life conversations reminding you that you’re Abba’s child and that you’re blessed to be a blessing and loved to share Jesus’ love.