Tag: Fear
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How to Stop Worrying: Trusting the God Who Cares for You
You’re anxious, because you think it hangs on you. You look at the future, the money, the diagnosis, the conflict, the people who might hurt you, the problems you cannot fix, and you feel as though you are the one who has to deal with it. And if you don’t deal with it, who will?…
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God’s Not Waiting to Vent
God is not frustrated with you, waiting to vent. He doesn’t have mountains of pent up anger and frustration. If you come to him, he doesn’t need to unload on you before you can both be square. Other people in your life are like that. And—at least to some extent—you are like that. Human beings…
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You’re Allowed to Be Overwhelmed
Sometimes all you can do is cry. You can barely get through the day. Everything feels heavy. On days like this, your emotional collapse feels like failure. It feels like one more thing collapsing on top of everything else. But, feeling overwhelmed is not a failure. It’s not a sin. It’s not wrong. It’s something…
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I’m Scared of People
Sometimes another person can make your whole body feel unsafe. Perhaps someone has threatened you. Perhaps someone has lied about you, or turned others against you. Perhaps it is not one event at all, but years of pressure, conflict, accusation, or fear. And so you feel scared. That kind of fear is not abstract. You…