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Stress can hit us in different ways. And one of the symptoms I’ve often experienced myself, or seen in others, is that of confusion.

You can be racing through life one moment and, the next, wonder you’ve just put the milk in the cupboard and the tea bags in the oven.

That, right there, is confusion, and too much stress can leave you in that situation.

As Christians we are absolutely not immune to the struggles of living in this world. However, we do have access to the creator and designer of this world, which means we can always ‘phone a friend’ for help.

If life is stressing you out, go grab a cup of tea, go for a walk, stand outside in nature and enjoy the sky or trees.

There’s always plenty we can do, but prevention is always better than a cure, so if you can see the stress building, talk to someone before you lose the kettle or your car keys!

Spend some time with God, who made you to be emotional – just like He is. So He knows full well, what it is to deal with stress because His own Son got so stressed he cried blood because of the anxiety He was having to process, so you’re in good company!

Just a thought...

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Introduction
In this week’s Marriage Matters, Andy B and Jo talk about the wider family – Parents, Siblings, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents and the in laws and how these family relationships can affect our marriages for good or bad. Jo opens by sharing some family matters found in the bible, the good, the bad and the ugly!
Andy, as usual, makes sense of it all with scripture verses:
•Genesis 1:28
•Matthew 12:46-50
Like Marriage Matters, so does Family matter!
Tips and Resources
•Look out for, and watch, Skit Guys movie - Family Camp.
•Take some time, a year if you can, when you first get married to learn what God wants you to do to serve Him – together - now you’re a married couple.
•Pray – ask God about family relationships and how he wants you to handle them!
The Take Away
Andy notes how the bible tells us to do family very differently from how the world or even the church culture tells us.
Jo has noticed how important family is from Genesis to Revelation!
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In lieu of our usual, 6pm, Andy B 2 Minute Video, we thought we thought we'd share this video with you instead. We think this is a good substitute for today!
This is a video that will be going out (and is already going out) through Konnect Radio and their own socials: Jo and I are going to be doing a brand new show for them, on Sundays from 4pm (UK time), starting Sunday 4th September. It's called Family Focus, and we'll be, we'll, focusing on all things family!
We're super excited to get stuck into this new project with Konnect Radio, and we hope you'll join us and listen along - and get involved! Our show is for everyone, after all, whether you're aged 8, 88 or 888 (probably not too many people listening who will have quite reached that last age).
We'll have some great features including Bible Stories with Dave the Dog, The Doggy Cushion and so much more!
If you want to listen along you can listen via your smart speaker, via the Konnect Radio Website, or by downloading the Konnect Radio app from either google or apple.
If you ever miss any of the shows that go out, you can always listen again via the Catch Up page on their website.
For more about Konnect Radio (which we've been enjoying since they began some 16 months ago) visit their website - https://www.konnectradio.com/
We'll be LIVE on Konnect Radio - on Wednesday 31st August, on Gareth Cottrell's Breakfast Show - to talk about the new show and we'd love you to join in if you can.
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I’m back! I hope you’ve missed these short daily reflections on life. I’ve certainly missed making them!

I took a pause because I’d been doing them, without any proper break, for nearly two years and I wanted to pause long enough to have a rest so I could come back refreshed. But, only to do so if I felt God was wanting me to continue with them, which I believe He does.

So here we are! And, while my short videos may have taken a pause, the rest of the BerryBunch Ministry carried on and we have some AMAZING things happening. Some of which I still can’t yet talk about publicly. They’re super exciting and I can wait to share what is coming up with you in the fullness of time.

Anyway, let’s get Back to Business! (did you see what I did there?!?)

In life it’s super easy to see our failures and successes and directly apply them to our ability to obey God successfully, or not.

We think, logically, that if things are going well then we must be getting things right. And, conversely, that if things are going ill, we must be getting things wrong.

But I can positively affirm that the two do not need to tie in with each other when it comes to matters of faith.

We recently purchased a replacement computer for the old one we’ve been battling with for two years – ever since we started editing videos. Video editing – the very heart of all we do – is incredibly computer intensive, so an old computer simply becomes an increasing liability. Our computer isn’t what I’d call old. More like a relic from the dark ages- you know, before we discovered coal power!

Anyway, the one we bought was a refurbished model, and the very best we could afford. Which was really not much! But we had peace, so went ahead. When it arrived, it was faulty and, sadly, the company we bought it from were beyond rubbish at accepting it back and giving us our money back. [In the UK you had 14 days to return anything, for any reason, if you’ve bought it remotely. In the end I had to force a refund through the company who we used to help us buy the computer.]

That refurbished computer was the very best we could do. But, it was not the very best that God could do. Because, and I do wonder whether this is tied into the issues we had with the faulty computer we first bought, somebody bought us a brand new computer. And a highly specced. one at that – one designed, specifically, to edit videos.

It’s beyond amazing and is saving us loads of stress and time.

So, if you’re doing something you had peace about doing, and it goes catastrophically wrong, be slow to start blaming yourself for having made a mess of the whole thing. It may well be that God allowed that to happen to help remind you how much you need to rely upon Him, and not your own understanding. It may well be that that mistake you now see before you, is really just part of God’s plan to help you become more like Jesus – FOR HIS KINGDOM.

Just a thought...

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