Tag: worry

For When the Unknown Future Feels Overwhelming

.Reading time 3 minutes.

We want to know it all, Lord. 
Every upcoming event, answer, result. We feel like it would just be best if it was all revealed.

But You know our limits better than we do. You know what our fragile minds and delicate hearts can handle.

You also know that our desire for knowledge is actually our desperate human attempt for control.

Free us from our control freak tendencies.
Help us understand that the unknowns are in much Better Hands.

It can just be so scary, so anxiety-producing, to not know what is coming or how it will all turn out.

Free us from our worries and anxieties.
Help us trust that You, the Creator of all things, know what You are doing.

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The Invitation to Your Table

.Reading time 8 minutes.

I wake up with that familiar pit in my stomach. Anxiety sits on my stomach like an overweight toddler, waking me up from my sleep. And then God’s voice says: Who are you inviting to sit at your table?

Oh wait, Fear and Shame, how the heck did you two get a seat here? You didn’t. You actually weren’t invited. You show up uninvited all the time. You come in like loud, obnoxious children – acting like you own the place. The worst kind of party crashers.

But this is my table. My mind. My heart. I don’t actually want you here.

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