Let the stress go

If You Have too much stress in your life you need to find ways to let the stress go.

. If you hold resentment towards another person, resolve your difference right away. Never "let the sun go down while you are still angry."2

Make time for rest and relaxation. Learn to "come apart and rest awhile before you come apart."

Watch your diet and eating habits. When under stress we tend to overeat—especially junk food which increases stress. A balanced diet of proteins, vitamins, and fiber, without white sugar, caffeine, too much fat, alcohol and nicotine, is essential for lowering stress and its effects.

Get plenty of physical exercise. This keeps you healthier and helps burn up excess adrenaline caused by stress and its accompanying anxiety.

The ultimate answer to turning stress into success is to learn to trust God and live in harmony with his will for your daily life. As our Scripture verse for today says, "Don't worry about anything, instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs and don't forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand."

God's peace comes through accepting, and trusting to God, those circumstances that can't be changed, however difficult they may be. Perhaps this is what Christ meant when he spoke of taking up our cross daily and following him. Certainly he fully accepted his cross and trusted his situation to God and thereby was totally vindicated.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, again today, I commit and trust my life and way to you. Please help me to live in harmony with the principles for daily living as found in your Word, the Bible. And help me to remember even in my darkest hours, that my times are in your hands and, like David, help me to trust and not be afraid. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."