Worry And Anxiety

What do you worry about? Money? Kids? Parents? Your health or sight? The future? Job security? Do you feel sometimes worry about not having anything to worry about? To those with spouse you leave it to them? I did it before, when were together but it didn’t worked out. Someone defined worry as “stewing without doing.” For me its a good definition because there is really nothing I can do about my worries since it is oriented to the future. And besides, almost everything I worry about is uncontrollable or improbable. Since things I worry about usually do not come to pass, and I think irrationally leads me to believe that somehow through my worrying I prevent those events from happening. Worry tends to paralyze me. I feel helpless, frustrated, unable to counteract some uncontrollable event in my life. Anxiety is similar to worry. I can’t control myself not to worry or be anxious about the future. But only God is worth to trust. And only my trust will destroy my patterns of worry and anxiety. I know worries won’t give up easily, I can quickly slip back into old patterns of thinking that trigger worry and fear. But those old patterns is no longer control my life. If only I know how to let go of the future and my fears, maybe I will know how to stop worry and anxiety. My trust in a trustworthy God is evidence. The only alternative is to trust in something else that is also unseen-my own ability to control the future.

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