I’d like you to put them in order of most stressful to least stressful
Exams, parents, friends, shopping, sport, hobbies, work, school,
sister/brother, the future, God, holidays, clothes, money, boyfriends, travel,
illness, having a laugh, sleep
Ask each person about their top cause of stress…
What makes this so stressful for you?
How does it make you feel?
Eventually Mr Kimble blows his top and runs out of the class room
Do you run away from you problems or do you face them head on?
Eventual Mr Kimble came up with an idea of how to calm the situation
down…his ferret
When you are stressed, how do you calm down?
Take a break / do something different / speak to some / pray / sport
The Bible bit
[Discus the following verses]
Galatians 6:2 “Carry each other's burdens”
What does this mean?
How far should we go?
Sometimes we just need a helping hand, other times we need someone to
'carry' us...that what God will do for us if we let him
Philippians 4:6 “Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need,
always giving thanks”
What is your experience?
James 5:16 “Pray for each other”
Ecclesiastes 9:11 “…the fastest runner does not always win the race”
What do you think?
What's more important...to win, lose or just take part?
Conclusion
Stress is caused by lots of different things
Worry / lack of sleep / doing too much / trauma…a death, moving house etc
Sometimes it’s worth thinking about the priorities we give these things…
So to finish I’d like you to take the cards we used at the beginning and
put them into the order you think they should be…not the order that they
are…where you’d like them to be.
