Words to Beat Winter

There's a battle to be won every day.

Every day I work to triumph over the negativity my mind gravitates to, to choose joy over worry, to forgive myself in my weakness rather than hounding myself to mental death over little things gone undone.


Sometimes that battle goes on for days, wearing me down into fraility and bringing me to that place where I begin to think I can never get out.

Oh, this time of the year is the most difficult!


The land is beautiful covered in snow, but the endless gray days and their lack of light makes it more difficult to look up and choose to see. It has been in the learning of Isaiah 45:5-7 with my boys that I have felt this year for the first time that we can really celebrate winter instead of dreading it. Holding onto these verses daily- who God is and what He does- is keeping this season in perspective. It is a choice to renew my mind daily, to be transformed, to arm myself in the Father and focus where He asks.

It is the days where I forget and turn inward that I find myself at the end of the day feeling drained and worried. So each morning we say His words together and remember the One who made us, guides us and keeps us- the ultimate in protection from the winter blues.

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Ann Voskamp invites us to write about habits today. You can read more at A Holy Experience.