{"id":456,"date":"2014-03-27T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asmaraanyan.wordpress.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2014-03-27T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T03:02:50","slug":"how-stressed-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/2014\/03\/27\/how-stressed-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How STRESSED are you?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you guess the #1 issue that church planting women deal with on the mission field?<\/p>\n

Anxiety<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Just imagine… you arrive in a completely foreign country, don’t know anyone, just moved into a house a third of the size of your previous one; the climate is nothing what you’re used to, the bugs are enormous, the customs different, the people speak in a language that means nothing to you, your kids are jet-lagged and begging for some food that at least looks familiar to them… sound stressful?<\/p>\n

Being a missionary is a high-stress job, which is why we learned about stress as part of our Field Health<\/em> class.<\/p>\n

Stress is a physical response to stressors<\/strong> (from the environment, your own body, or your heart\/mind) that are processed in the brain and followed by a flood of hormones, cortisol, and epinephrine that then work together to turn the stress circuit on and off. Stress becomes a problem when it turns into a lifestyle<\/em> rather than being used as a protective mechanism God has graced our bodies with in this fallen world.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of our class, we all evaluated our own stress levels by taking the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale<\/em>. Want to know what your stress level is?<\/strong> Take the test yourself by considering the events of your life in the last year and adding the numbers that each event is attributed to:\u00a0Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale (2)<\/a><\/p>\n

I scored 371<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to the scale, scoring 300+ means that I have a 90% chance of developing an illness, having an accident, or “blowing up”. Oops. I have to say that the result was a surprise to me, as I really don’t feel that<\/em> stressed out on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Here’s how we defined \u201cstressed\u201d in class:\u00a0when the demands upon an individual surpass the resources in his\/her arsenal to meet such demands.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Praise the Lord that I don’t have to rely on my own resources to find peace and rest among the stressors of life!\u00a0Does that mean I don’t get stressed out? Ohhhh no (just ask my husband). Does that mean life is all peachy and perfect? Certainly not. But it does mean that I have a God who is gracious and mighty<\/strong> to empower me with a peace that surpasses all understanding, a peace that guards my heart and mind as I live in this imperfect world, a peace that is not dependent on my circumstances but only on my faith in God’s promises.<\/p>\n

Hold on to that peace today.<\/p>\n

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Can you guess the #1 issue that church planting women deal with on the mission field? Anxiety. Just imagine… you arrive in a completely foreign country, don’t know anyone, just moved into a house a third of the size of your previous one; the climate is nothing what you’re used to, the bugs are enormous, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-anyan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}