“whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”John 4:14  I started to experience anxiety this morning.  I’m coming down from a bout of it, actually. I couldn’t find the little card on it that said when my dentist appointment is today.  That is why anxiety hit.  The silliest of things triggered a deep unrest in my soul that I have not felt these past three weeks since school and all its deadlines and worries have made space for summer.  But this morning reminded me that I still struggle with unrest and the anxiety that I began to consistently notice by the end of the school year is not dead, but merely dormant until silly things like losing appointment cards triggers insecurities and frustrations. This is why this time is important, why it needs to be seized.  The only thing that can erase this paralyzing anxiety is the life-giving words of the Living God.  So I will settle down with His words for the next 10 minutes until I have to leave for my dentist appointment which I assume is at 11:10, and in coming days I will remember that these days are not to be wasted.  I am being given time to prepare for the storms of life and the anxieties that may paralyze again when Autumn comes ‘round.  I desperately need life, and it has been freely given.  I just need to take it.

“whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:14 

I started to experience anxiety this morning.  I’m coming down from a bout of it, actually. I couldn’t find the little card on it that said when my dentist appointment is today.  That is why anxiety hit.  The silliest of things triggered a deep unrest in my soul that I have not felt these past three weeks since school and all its deadlines and worries have made space for summer.  But this morning reminded me that I still struggle with unrest and the anxiety that I began to consistently notice by the end of the school year is not dead, but merely dormant until silly things like losing appointment cards triggers insecurities and frustrations.

This is why this time is important, why it needs to be seized.  The only thing that can erase this paralyzing anxiety is the life-giving words of the Living God.  So I will settle down with His words for the next 10 minutes until I have to leave for my dentist appointment which I assume is at 11:10, and in coming days I will remember that these days are not to be wasted.  I am being given time to prepare for the storms of life and the anxieties that may paralyze again when Autumn comes ‘round.  I desperately need life, and it has been freely given.  I just need to take it.

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