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Anxious

             Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6)

In the history of calming down, has anyone actually been calmed down by being told to calm down? I doubt it. In the same way, being told “Do not be anxious” does nothing to ease anxiety. As usual, I’m trying to write a blog the day before you read it, so I haven’t spent the evening selling (or hoping to sell) books. But it’s only a few hours away and I’m already chalking up ticks in the failure column. I can’t seem to get my stuff set up to use the point-of-sale system I bought. It will happen, but not before this evening.

Oh, I have gotten some things done, but blah, blah, blah. My active day has gone off the rails. And when I look at the blah, blah, blah -when I consider it, I find that my major anxiety was really due to one element. And now that the event that caused all the anxiety is over, that element wasn’t a major problem. The real problem that I should have been praying about was spiritual, as I found myself with a group of people for whom the term “worldly” is an understatement. I was polite (of course!) but it wasn’t comfortable. But, I got some ideas, including how to pray about such things in the future.

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