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Exchange Your Worries for Delight in God . . . and God's Delight in YouWeary of worry and its tagalongs: anxiety, discouragement, and exhaustion? Jane Rubietta invites you to leave behind your heavy heart and learn to truly live again. To experience joy and rest in the moment-by-moment pleasure of a God who delights in you--and has all your tomorrows under his control. Jane's picturesque prose offers enduring encouragement and practical tools for change. Discussion questions and journaling prompts make this the perfect book to read on your own or share with your small group and discover how to worry less and live more."A luminous journey from worry to its surprising antidote . . . delight. A book laden with richness, humor, honesty, and hope. We can worry less and live more. Both practical and delightful. Start reading. Stop worrying. Start living."--Anita Lustrea, co-host of Midday Connection, speaker, author of What Women Tell Me "Jane's book is a poetic, beautiful reminder that more rests on God's shoulders than on mine, and it pleases Him when I nurture a heart at rest so I can actually live by faith."--Susie Larson, national radio host and speaker, and author of Your Beautiful Purpose"Jane weaves a journey against the worry that separates us from ourselves and from the good God who made us."--Nancy Ortberg, author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey Through Tattoos, Tofu and Pronouns"With piercing honesty and gentle humor, Jane Rubietta takes aim at one of the biggest enemies of our joy--worry."--Lynn Austin, Christy Award-winning author"God wants us to live more and worry less, but worry is stealing the pleasure from our lives. Jane Rubietta has masterfully written a book that is a soothing balm to the worry-worn soul. She will take you on an exciting discovery of the delight of God--the secret to defeating worry--enabling you to embrace the worry-free life again."--Shelly Esser, editor, Just Between Us"Vintage Jane! Telling stories. Being real. Giving practical biblical wisdom--about the worry that stalks us all. If you want handholds to grab as you scale your own walls of anxiety, let Jane hand you her own tools. Tools of play, self-nurture, memory, spontaneity, trust, and more."--Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, co-lead pastor at Redeemer Community Church, spiritual director, and author"Join the healing journey to slow down, savor, and thrive in wholeness. Jane is our expert guide providing practical tools for the worry-wrinkled soul toward breakthrough, healing, and encountering God's love and delight."--Dr. Catherine Hart Weber, therapist and author, Flourish: Discover the Daily Joy of Abundant, Vibrant Living"Who doesn't want to Worry Less So You Can Live More? Jane Rubietta masterfully provides amazing, insightful 'Tools' wrapped in stories from the heart of a worrier, taking the reader from being weighed down with worry to the realization that 'living more' is just around the corner when we intentionally and consistently reposition our souls to focus and delight in Jesus! Challenging and inspiring read!"--Edna Mapstone, national director, Great Commission Women of the Christian and Missionary Alliance

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	10 février 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441265340
Langue	English

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© 2015 by Jane Rubietta
Published by Bethany House Publishers
11400 Hampshire Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55438
www.bethanyhouse.com
Bethany House Publishers is a division of
Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Ebook edition created 2015
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ISBN 978-1-4412-6534-0
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“A luminous journey from worry to its surprising antidote . . . delight. A book laden with richness, humor, honesty, and hope. We can worry less and live more. Both practical and delightful. Start reading. Stop worrying. Start living.”
—Anita Lustrea, co-host of Midday Connection , speaker, author of What Women Tell Me
“Jane Rubietta’s new book inspires me to make snow angels in the snow, plant flowers in the spring, ride my bike in the summer, and slow down long enough to deeply appreciate the colors of fall. Most of us move too fast, worry too often, and miss much of what God wants to show us about himself and his creation. Jane’s book is a poetic, beautiful reminder that more rests on God’s shoulders than on mine, and it pleases him when I nurture a heart at rest so I can actually live by faith. I wholeheartedly endorse this book.”
—Susie Larson, national radio host and speaker, and author of Your Beautiful Purpose
“The problem with worry is that our minds and bodies conspire to keep us unaware. Jane’s words are a powerful antidote to that. Considering delight, memory, dreams, movement, spontaneity, and more, she weaves a journey against the worry that separates us from ourselves and from the good God who made us.”
—Nancy Ortberg, author of Looking for God : An Unexpected Journey Through Tattoos , Tofu , and Pronouns
“With piercing honesty and gentle humor, Jane Rubietta takes aim at one of the biggest enemies of our joy—worry. She then provides an arsenal of practical tools to destroy this enemy. And she does it with flowing prose and healing words. This book had me laughing and weeping, and eager to try her creative ideas so I can begin to worry less and live more.”
—Lynn Austin, Christy Award–winning author
“God wants us to live more and worry less, but worry is stealing the pleasure from our lives. Jane Rubietta has masterfully written a book that is a soothing balm to the worry-worn soul. She will take you on an exciting discovery of the delight of God—the secret to defeating worry—enabling you to embrace the worry-free life again.
—Shelly Esser, editor, Just Between Us
“Vintage Jane! Telling stories. Being real. Giving practical biblical wisdom—about the worry that stalks us all. If you want handholds to grab as you scale your own walls of anxiety, let Jane hand you her own tools. Tools of play, self-nurture, memory, spontaneity, trust, and more.”
—Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, co–lead pastor at Redeemer Community Church, spiritual director, and author
“Join the healing journey to slow down, savor, and thrive in wholeness. Jane is our expert guide providing practical tools for the worry-wrinkled soul toward breakthrough, healing, and encountering God’s love and delight.”
—Dr. Catherine Hart Weber, therapist and author, Flourish: Discover Vibrant Living
“Who doesn’t want to Worry Less So You Can Live More ? Jane Rubietta masterfully provides amazing, insightful ‘Tools’ wrapped in stories from the heart of a worrier, taking the reader from being weighed down with worry to the realization that ‘living more’ is just around the corner when we intentionally and consistently reposition our souls to focus and delight in Jesus! Challenging and inspiring read!”
—Edna Mapstone, national director, Great Commission Women of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
For Bonnie, Who shared her flowers And listened Always directing my heart To God
I want to thank all the people over the years who have shared my life and shared their stories with me: your fears, your laughter, your hope, and your faith. Thank you for being those who continue to trust your lives to the God who is unseen.
Contents
Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Endorsements 5
Dedication 7
Acknowledgments 9
Reader Beware 13
Introduction 15
1. Wearing Wildflowers 23
The Tool of Play
2. Wearing Red Shoes: Trading Worry for Whimsy 36
The Tool of Nurture
3. The Forget-Me-Not God 50
The Tool of Memory
4. Boxed In . . . But Climbing Out 64
The Tool of Breaking Free
5. Bread of the Presence 77
The Tool of Constancy
6. Wildflower Salsa 90
The Tool of Movement
7. Watered by Tears 103
The Tool of Tears
8. The Silent Walk 115
The Tool of Empathy
9. Dance of the Fireflies 128
The Tool of Spontaneity
10. School Pictures 141
The Tool of Identity
11. Fly Crew 155
The Tool of Trust
12. Can I Really? 169
The Tool of Progress
13. Life at the D-I-Y House 184
The Tool of Anticipation
Author’s Note 199
Notes 201
About the Author 205
Back Cover 206
Reader Beware
These are at times whimsical but thoughtful musings of a journey toward wholeness, toward worrying less and living more. They are not a doctrinal dissertation, nor a theological tome. If you feel you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, suffer from panic attacks, or deal with other serious problems, then please seek professional help, and take this book with you.
Worry Less So You Can Live More is not intended to solve the problems of the world or represent an argument for any particular camp; it is not an exegesis of a particular book in the Bible. I don’t think we need more knowledge, necessarily, although that is not a bad thing. But knowledge cannot substitute for the brilliance of being loved by God.
This journey has dragged me through thistle and briar patch, and along the way I have found that women everywhere struggle with similar issues: of trust, of exhaustion, of longing, always with both the overarching minor descant and bass line of worry. We mostly feel a little bit lost in the heaviness of the struggle. It is a pleasure to know that en route, our wildflower-throwing God waits with delight to surprise us and love us.
So please don’t send me angry letters arguing about my priorities in a world that is dying. I’m afraid that we are dying, as well. If we are dead, we are useless to this world. And God calls us to do more than just stay alive until Jesus returns for us. God wants us to live more, and worry less, and along the way, to live in his delight.
Worry Less So You Can Live More is my attempt to relinquish my worry-wrinkled soul, to encounter the delight of God and the God of delight, and to share my findings with others.
Introduction
The lightning bugs called our names in the dusk, their mysterious invitational glow rising up from the dewy grass of early summer. Fun jammed most every day. We made mud pies, laughed until our sides hurt, lay down in the field behind my house, and created catapults from the tall weeds with their little bullet-shaped seed heads.
Long before the classic Indiana-based cycling movie Breaking Away hit our VCRs (actually before VCRs were perhaps even invented), we pedaled our bikes with a ferocity that could overtake the greatest Olympian, up and down the rolling hills of southern Indiana. On boiling hot days, we ran down the rocky driveway barefoot, squatted over the hot pavement, and popped tar bubbles with sticks and pointy stones. We swallowed peanut butter sandwiches or grilled cheeses and the requisite carrot sticks with our legs jiggling and feet tapping to get back outside. Hours later we rushed back inside for dinner, skidding into our seats at the table after a fast hands-and-face washing and pulling a comb through play-tangled mops of hair. Afterward, we each raced back outside and reassembled as though called by an inaudible whistle. When dusk approached, we stacked cans to kick, and chased each other playing Ghost in the Graveyard. We hunted fireflies with our jelly jars, diamond-shaped holes punched in the lids by my dad with a nail and hammer.
But when evening replaced the dusk and the streetlights pierced the darkness, our curtain fell. Jars teeming with lightning bugs, we