This is St. John’s Wort. It’s suppose to help control moods. We are obsessed about our moods. I have to admit that I tend to be controlled by my moods. My decisions to tackle projects require a certain mood. I don’t write well, without the mood (or is that the muse?) Moods affect my spiritual life as well: a mood for prayer or worship or service. I also know that moods should not control me. Praying about it isn’t enough. There are certain things in life that we need not pray about— moods, for instance. We will never get rid of moodiness by praying, but we will by kicking it out of our lives. Moods nearly always are rooted in some physical circumstance, not in our true inner self. It is a continual struggle not to listen to the moods which arise as a result of our physical condition, but we must never submit to them for a second. We have to pick ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake ourselves; then we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to do. The problem that most of us are cursed with is simply that we won’t. The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh. We know what we need to do. We just need to do them.
Act and be blessed.
Nick
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