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What are some strategies you’ve used to overcome worry? Were these helpful or not? Explain.
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I try to pray first and not wait until I struggle for days with worry. Asking God for help used to be my last response but I am learning to approach things that worry me with prayer first. Then I think about past times when God has handled tough situations and always seen me through. I admit this is pretty difficult sometimes and I may have to pray over and over again before I can let it go. Sometimes it helps to realize if I can do anything about a situation. If there is nothing I can do, I ask for peace to accept it. If there is something I can, I decide if I should do something.
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sharing with a close friend, finding things that I enjoy doing to occupy empty space, talking with God more asking his guidance, direction, protection, and trusting Him to have my best interest at heart because my experiences has taught me that God deeply cares for me.
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Since my brother’s death I have noticed that anxiety grips me at times. It’s a horrible panicky feeling that makes me very uncomfortable in my own skin. I panic over small things these days. Its three years now and I think it is time it subsided.
I was talking to the Lord about it and at that time was working through Dr Larry Crabb’s Soulcare programmes on Our Daily Bread University. Dr Crabb talked about having a ‘sacred curiosity.’ ‘Sacred curiosity’ is a way of helping tease out an event someone is talking over with you. It refers to asking gentle questions to improve understanding of what someone is going through.
I wondered if I could swap my anxiety for ‘sacred curiosity.’ I could be curious as to how God is going to resolve what I am anxious about.
When I do this my anxiety dissolves, and a sense of wonder replaces it. I know I have responsibility in each situation too, but I have a sense of expectancy that somehow God will reveal what he is up to. So far I have discovered that if I hang in there, God does show up. Often not how I expected, and often from out of left field, but unmistakably He shows up. -
When I worry I have to always go back to the fact that I am not in charge God is. This is one of the times that scripture becomes extremely important to me. There are so many verses to support the fact that He loves us and wants what is best for us. I also remember that this earth is not my home. I was never meant to be completely comfortable here. Nothing will be perfect this side of heaven.
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The only way is God because I was down on my corner all alone nobody to check on me even if I try to become the ones who do check on them but if I put all of my worries on God I get to find something doing. So everything has to be on God
