'anxiety of life' and it got me between the eyes.
The Bible repeatedly tells us not to be anxious for anything. And yet we are anxious all the time....if not for one thing, then for another.
Compounding our anxiety is our fear - fear of the unknown; fear of collapsing and not being able to get back up again; fear that we will spiral out of control; fear of change and what change may bring; fear of a zillion things - big and small.
The trouble is that anxiety and the accompanying fears pull us down...they paralyze us...they cause friction in the atmosphere and disturb the peace of the home/work place.
We HAVE to realize is that it is okay to be anxious; it is okay to be scared. BUT.....and this is a big BUT.....we also need to get out of this frame of mind for our own sakes. The only way to do this is to be present in our feelings of pain/insecurity/hurt/anger/upset.... Accept them for what they are. Lean in and acknowledge our pain. Listen to our pain. Understand where it comes from.
And gradually we will start trusting our own self. We will start taking care of our self. We will learn to let go. We will learn to make peace with the past, and enjoy the present....for this present is all we have. Though the temptation is there to reach out to someone, the reality is that noone but noone can really make things okay for us. We have to make it okay for our own self and the beauty is that we have all the tools inside of us to make things right.