Anxiety

Over a Starbucks last week a friend and I were lamenting American politics today, how it consumes more and more of our national attention and media. Sadly these discussions divide not only the country but believers as well.  No matter your personal bent or your personal loyalties, I think you would agree with me that we too often end up with more far more “heat than light.

I must admit it's true. Most of these screaming fits occur in the middle of the night after everyone else is asleep and my mind refuses to shut down. If you're wondering why I don't awaken everyone in my house, it is only because my screaming fits occur almost exclusively  inside my head. Ironically it's usually in the midst of such fits that God speaks to me most clearly.

Even as economic turmoil swirls around us, the holiday season arrived on schedule.  Terrorists across the ocean create anxiety. Yet, thanksgiving with all its trimmings, feasting and football, slipped by.

Is anyone besides me feeling anxious with our daily news detailing the exploding financial disasters, Wall Street on a roller coaster, and with our politics heating to a fever pitch? Add any personal concerns and is it any wonder that anxiety overtakes me and fear grabs at my heart, a season of upheaval, disruption.  At times like these I’m instructed and encouraged by the words of