Anxiety

Just was reading a section out of A Praying Life by Paul Miller, and it really spoke to me. I am very anxious this week about things I have to get done. I couldn't go to sleep last night, which has put me behind in the energy department. But this was what I read: "Instead of fighting anxiety, we can use it as a springboard to bending our hearts to God. Instead of trying to suppress anxiety, manage it, or smother it with pleasure, we can turn our anxiety toward God. When we do that, we'll discover that we've slipped into continuous praying. Anxiety wants to be God but lacks God's wisdom, power or knowledge. A godlike stance without godlike character and ability is pure tension. Because anxiety is self on it's own, it tries to get control. It is unable to relax in the face of chaos. Once the problem is solved, the next in line steps ups. The new one looms so large, we forget the last deliverance. We return to sanity by becoming like little children, resting on our mothers."

¹ My heart is not proud, O LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.

² But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psalm 131:1-2