Anxiety

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peace might not be perfect, but it beats the alternatives.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

They say that seeing you face to face would be more than a human being could handle. I don’t know if you have a face other than in the faces of people around us. Maybe the saying means that to see your essence is simply beyond our capacity. But some manifestations of you are manageable. They give us glimpses of glory, comfort, assurance and hope. Thank you for not appearing in ways we can’t handle.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Well, sorry, Nathaniel. Did you think the Messiah would look like Charlton Heston?”

[Of course not!]

D. Blog: Anxiety

A full to-do list fills me with a sense of anxiety. How can I manage it all? I do the first thing on the list, the second and the third. These go better than I had feared, so I gain a bit of optimism.

Then I get a phone call and I learn that one of my appointments for the day has to be postponed. I check items four, six and seven from the list in short order. Suddenly I have extra time. A nap fits into the schedule quite nicely.

Why be anxious?