Comments on: Anxiety http://thedirtroad.net/jeff/journal/2008/10/10/anxiety/ Jeff's stuff Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Chris http://thedirtroad.net/jeff/journal/2008/10/10/anxiety/comment-page-1/#comment-1556 Chris Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:29:21 +0000 http://thedirtroad.net/jeff/journal/?p=305#comment-1556 Jeff, thanks for the reminder. While we haven't had gas shortages here in Iowa, I had a similarly-anxious day back 10 days ago or so re: the economy. I had no real reason to be anxious, yet the whole day I was on edge, had trouble focusing. It took a bit to realize what I was doing, and to force myself to stop and turn it over to God. I once heard someone describe worrying as "trying to make yourself responsible for things you have no responsibility for", and that's helped my thinking often enough. If I can do something about it, I'll do it. If I can't, no sense stressing about it. (As Becky will tell you, though, sometimes that works well for me... and other times, not so well. Still learning.) Jeff, thanks for the reminder. While we haven’t had gas shortages here in Iowa, I had a similarly-anxious day back 10 days ago or so re: the economy. I had no real reason to be anxious, yet the whole day I was on edge, had trouble focusing. It took a bit to realize what I was doing, and to force myself to stop and turn it over to God.

I once heard someone describe worrying as “trying to make yourself responsible for things you have no responsibility for”, and that’s helped my thinking often enough. If I can do something about it, I’ll do it. If I can’t, no sense stressing about it. (As Becky will tell you, though, sometimes that works well for me… and other times, not so well. Still learning.)

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