Stressed? How To Experience A Calmer Life

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By Scott Morton on January 1, 2010 ,

Stressed? How To Experience A Calmer Life

I was on the phone complaining to a colleague about how stressed I was. I told him I was "honking at my taillights," with too much to do and too little time to do it. Silence.

I waited, eager for the call to end so I could get back to my busy schedule. Chuck was breaking a custom. Usually when one Christian tells another Christian how stressed he is, the listener responds by describing how much more stressed he is, which prompts the original busy person to "outstress" him once again. Stress face-offs, I call them. . .

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Scott Morton

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Scott Morton, Author, serves as International Funding Coach for The Navigators. For 14 years he led Navigator campus and marketplace ministries, in which he worked with students, businesspeople, and missionaries, both stateside and overseas. For 12 years he served as vice president of The Navigators' US Development Ministry. He is the author of several books including Funding Your Ministry: A Field Guide for Raising Personal Support, What the Bible Actually Says About Money: 31 Meditations and Down-to-Earth Discipling: Essential Principles to Guide Your Personal Ministry (Living the Questions).

 

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