Anxiety
Anxiety - Part 7: Peace I Leave With You
Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Let us be honest about something before we close this series: you are not going to finish reading this and never feel anxious again. That is not how it works. But here is what may be different after these seven days. When the anxiety comes — and it will come — you will know what to do with it. You will know that it is not a character flaw. You will know that God is not waiting to scold you for it.Anxiety - Part 6: For Those Who Have Been Anxious a Long Time
Posted on Monday, May 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Some battles are won in an afternoon. You pray, you feel better, you move on. But what happens when the war has been running for years? What happens when worry is not a storm that blew through but the weather you live in? This is the day for that. If you have been anxious for a long time, you know something the rest of us may only imagine. You know what it is to wake up already tired.Anxiety - Part 5: Casting Your Anxiety — The Practice of Surrender
Posted on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Have you ever tried to hold onto something slippery while someone told you to just let go? Your hands tighten instead. That’s what anxiety can feel like — you’re gripping so hard because you think letting go means losing control. That’s not surrender. That’s just gripping with extra steps. The Bible doesn’t tell us to passively accept our anxiety and hope it fades. It gives us something more specific, more actionable, and frankly, more honest: cast it.Anxiety - Part 4: Paul and the Thorn - When God Says No
Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a kind of prayer that does not get answered the way we want. And it is the prayers we pray in the dark, knuckles white, begging God to remove something that is eating us alive - those prayers cut deepest when the answer comes back: no.
Paul knew that prayer.
He tells us about it with a rawness that is almost startling. In 2 Corinthians 12, he describes something he calls “a thorn in the flesh.” He does not fully explain what it was - scholars have guessed for centuries - but whatever it was, it devastated him. It haunted him. And three times, he tells us, he begged God to take it away.
Three times.
And three times, God said no.
Anxiety - Part 3: Jesus on Anxiety — The Sermon on the Mount
Posted on Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Jesus does not whisper this instruction. He does not file it away as an optional addendum. Three times in one passage — Matthew 6:25 through 34 — He says the same thing: Do not be anxious.
Three times. To make sure we heard Him.
Anxiety - Part 2: What Anxiety Actually Tells Us
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Anxious people are often told to “just calm down” or “think positive.” But what if anxiety is trying to tell us something? What if the knot in your stomach is not a character flaw but a signal? Anxiety is an alarm system. It sounds when something matters to you. When you lie awake at 3 a.m. replaying a conversation, your mind is not broken — it is telling you that relationships matter.Anxiety - Part 1: Anxiety Is Not a Failure of Faith
Posted on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
You are not in trouble with God because you are anxious. Say that again. Slowly. You. Are not. In trouble. With God. Because you are anxious. If that sentence lands hard, that is probably because someone, somewhere, taught you otherwise. Maybe it was a well-meaning voice in a pew. Maybe it was the internalized whisper that if you just trusted better, worried less, prayed harder — you would be fine. That anxiety was proof of some gap in your faith.Peace - Part 3: Peace in the Midst of Anxiety and Worry
Posted on Friday, March 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Peace in the Midst of Anxiety and Worry It’s 2:47 AM. Your eyes are wide open. The house is quiet, but your mind is anything but. The to-do list for tomorrow keeps scrolling like a ticker tape: the bills due, the meeting you’re not ready for, the doctor’s appointment you’re dreading, the kids’ needs, the work deadline, the relationship tension. Your chest feels tight. Your thoughts race faster than you can catch them.Peace in Anxious Times: Finding Calm When Life Feels Overwhelming
Posted on Monday, March 2, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Today’s morning reflection comes from a powerful devotional about finding peace in anxious times. The Struggle Is Real We’ve all been there—that moment when life feels overwhelming, when the weight of circumstances presses down on us and we don’t know how we’ll make it through. Perhaps you’re there right now. There’s something about anxiety that captures our hearts and minds, leaving us paralyzed with fear about tomorrow, regret about yesterday, and overwhelm about today.