Thinking Out Loud Series: Stress Kills, Not Work


Hello dear reader,

A lovely day to you and yours!
Trust the season is seasoning 😄💕

I just wanted to quickly address something I’ve heard so often—those casual statements people make about their experiences that somehow become “general knowledge,” and then quietly govern how we think.

Recently, someone was talking to me about work. She said, “Don’t work too much; it can kill.” I laughingly stopped her and asked her to rephrase—because that’s not the whole truth. I’ll put it as safely as I can.

During my quiet time with God afterward, I received clarity: Work is a gift from God. From the beginning, work was good. What harms us is not work itself but stress, which often comes from managing work outside the limits of our God-given strength, wisdom, and balance.

Thank God for the gift of rest.
Rest is heaven’s reset button.
It allows us to exchange our stress for strength, our fatigue for fresh insight, and our overwhelm for clarity on how to live better.

That conversation is just one example.

There are so many things God created as good—but because of people’s poor understanding, incomplete knowledge, or painful experiences, they label those things as bad. And then others carry those misinformed ideas everywhere, polluting the atmosphere with wrong thinking.

Let’s be people who share accurate truth, not recycled fears.
Let’s spread light, not confusion.
Let’s help others build the right attitudes instead of passing down misconceptions.

Stay ready.
Stay prepared.
Keep growing and glowing.

Jesus reigns!