Up front anxiety

Today's post is related to one that written by Seth Godin @

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/05/perhaps-your-anxiety-is-specific-to-magicians.html

I will not quote the post in it's entirety as Seth has done that one very well for himself but here's the gist of what he says. 

Seth begins by titling his post as follows:

"Perhaps your anxiety is specific to magicians"

He then goes on to say that people who have "up front" jobs; musicians, actors, magicians etc., may have natural anxiety levels because they are always up front in their jobs. However, after further reading of this post, he says that actually anxiety is experienced by anyone who has ever had to be a part of something they cannot ultimately control - ie. all of us. The piece I like about it is that Godin suggests that being anxious about something might be a good indicator of who much one cares about what they are doing...

Whenever I hear the word, "anxiety" (an emotion that appears with annoying regularity especially on preaching weeks like this one), I remember that the Apostle Paul told us not to be anxious about ANYTHING, but in EVERYTHING, by prayer and petition, present our requests to God. Once we have done that, we can TRUST that the peace of God, which passes ALL understanding, will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

So, perhaps we can let our anxiety be free by giving it over to a faithful God who KNOWS that we will be anxious and knows that we wil be anxious over the things for which we care, and therefore He will take care of them and honor the work that we have invested in that about which we care.

We care, so let the anxiety out the door... or as Godin says, good riddance to it... and present your requests to God and PEACE will follow.