Learning to Tell Myself the Truth by William Backus
This book/workbook provides a solid, structured approach to replacing commonly held and damaging misbeliefs with Scriptural truth. He organizes this work by especially targeting anxiety, depression, anger, and perfectionism. Each chapter provides practical tools for replacing the “mischief maker” misbeliefs with truth, then offers direction for integrating truth into thought and behavior patterns.
The creator goes off on one wild, specific tangent after another, or millions simultaneously, with an exuberance that would seem to be unwarranted, and with an abandoned energy sprung from an unfathomable font. [...]
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay
The plants in the garden are giving their all. Stems and leaves surrender their energy to fruiting. The days are shorter, the air cooler. Autumn is a ripeness, an urgency to complete, to go to fruit and seed, to give to the future.
Our lives, too, must be allowed to mature, to be able to give to others. We do not bear fruit for ourselves. We bear fruit for [Creator God].
