Surviving Life: Driving with Anna

By Anna K Payne

Are you feeling hurt? You can draw strength and gain purpose.

Life is not easy. Do you wonder where you're going? Are you taking the right steps? Are your days filled with joy? Anna K Payne's writing demonstrates a simple and effective way to thrive each and every day of your life.

You can:

- Discover strength in the face of disaster.

- Discern the joy among the tears.

- Find a sanctuary filled with peace.

Surviving Life is a devotional filled with practical tools to help you live with life's uncertainties. Read about the hope and strength Anna found through prayer, the Bible, family, and friends.

Gift yourself with Surviving Life now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AP Creations Publishing
• Release date: Sep 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386609414

Anna K Payne

Anna K Payne loves a mystery. Her favorite movies include one-liners and things that explode. Her relationship with her Savior is her number one priority and her family come second.  But her passion and vision is to inspire hope, encourage others, love richly, and listen well through the strength of Jesus Christ. She seeks to inspire and encourage through her devotionals and cozy mysteries as well as aiding her family of writers publish their own books. https://www.instafreebie.com/author/AnnaKPayne

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Surviving Life

A Driving with Anna Devotional

by

Anna K Payne

AP Creations

I hope you enjoy reading these blog entries and they bless your heart.

Thanks to my Mom and Dad for their unending support and praise. Thanks to my fans for encouraging me to publish. Thanks to my husband, my children and my brothers for allowing me to use their lives as examples and for their support.

Thanks to God for the words he gives me to express my heart.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is the Father who is full of mercy and all comfort. He comforts us every time we have trouble, so when others have trouble, we can comfort them with the same comfort God gives us.

Published by AP Creations

Copyright © 2010 by Anna K Payne

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

Connected/Disconnected

I am having an episode with vertigo. I woke up this morning but I can’t get up because there is no up. I can’t stay up. I can’t sit up. There is only around and around. I spent an entire day in bed beleaguered by all the little movements I make that I don’t think about.

As the weekend progressed, I realized I couldn’t drive - so how was I supposed to get to work?! I was disconnected from my family and disconnected from my church family. If I couldn’t drive and riding in a car made me nauseous, then how could I go anywhere? Even worse, I couldn’t stay on my computer for more than a few minutes. I couldn’t stay sitting up for more than a few minutes.

Then, my son graciously drove me to the walk-in and the doctor gave me some pills to disconnect my inner ear from my brain. What I needed was to be disconnected?! When I take the pills, then my inner ear can’t tell my brain wrong things to make me dizzy.

It is a good thing to be disconnected. I need to be disconnected from the wrong things and connected to the right things.

So I need to stay disconnected from sin and sinful things.

Romans 6:12-14 That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day. Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life.

Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time - remember, you've been raised from the dead! - into God's way of doing things. Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God.

But I need to make sure I stay connected to God, my Savior, Jesus who is the vine! I need to stay connected to my fellow Christians. I need to stay connected to God’s word. I need to make sure every day I am reading the bible through, reading a scripture a day, studying for bible lessons or working through a book.

It is only by God’s grace and mercy that I am connected to the vine, a part of this wonderful family of God.

Romans 11:19-20 It's certainly possible to say, Other branches were pruned so that I could be grafted in! Well and good. But they were pruned because they were deadwood, no longer connected by belief and commitment to the root. The only reason you're on the tree is because your graft took when you believed, and because you're connected to that belief-nurturing root.

So don't get cocky and strut your branch. Be humbly mindful of the root that keeps you lithe and green.

Prayer

Lord, help me to be connected to you. You give me balance in my life. When I am disconnected to you there is no peace or joy. I need to disconnect from sin in my life. Sin robs me of purpose and patience. Help me to disconnect from sin but connect with you daily, in prayer, in hope, in sorrow.

Notes

Reading My Bible is Conversing with God?

I usually start thinking about next year's devotions early in November. It takes me days of thinking. I like to wait to see what the church is doing. Their yearly verses are prayerfully chosen. Sometimes I do word studies - words like righteousness, faith, patience, forgiveness - look up all the references to those words in the bible, read the context, and think about them. It took me months to make it through