When Anxiety Tells You to Hold Tighter

“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
1 Peter 5:7 KJV

I read this verse differently when anxiety is actually sitting in the room with me.

It is easy to tell somebody else to give their worries to God. It is a whole different thing when you are the one lying awake thinking about everything that could go wrong. You start going through scenarios in your head, trying to figure out what you can fix, what you should have done differently and what you are going to do if things don’t work out.

Somehow we convince ourselves that all of that thinking is helping.

At least I do.

There is this part of me that feels like if I think about something long enough,