{"id":14705,"date":"2022-12-01T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2022-12-01T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:24:00","slug":"when-worry-washes-over-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/when-worry-washes-over-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When Worry Washes Over You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy. <\/span><\/i>Psalm 94:19\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I confess that I am a wimp about pain. After a season of feeling invaded by treatments for breast cancer, my brain has moved into \u201cprotect\u201d mode. So not long ago, I started to get really nervous about some jabbing shocks in my tooth. <\/span>Maybe it will go away, <\/span><\/i>I thought, and tried to ignore it. But the head-in-the-sand approach to anxiety never works.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon enough, I was hearing the words \u201cdifficult root canal\u201d and worrying about how to pay for the procedure. And the next day, I walked shakily into the endodontist\u2019s office, my mind spinning with everything that could go wrong. But allowing anxious thoughts to roam free instead of taking them captive never works, either. The doctor was gentle and patient, yet with each shot of anesthetic into my mouth, my heart rate soared. We were truly worried I might faint.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What was going on? Well, what was going on was that I was letting anxiety have its way with me. I had to get back to what I know is true. I had to say yes to fresh focus.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God tells us over and over that he is our provider. That he cares. That he is able. That we must choose to not worry about tomorrow. This is especially true for us as moms, isn\u2019t it? In the national survey for my book, <\/span>For Men Only, <\/span><\/i>81 percent of women have trouble controlling pop-up worries even when there <\/span>isn\u2019t <\/span><\/i>something big going on\u2014much less when there is! Yet, we also know that anxiety isn\u2019t what God has for us.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t always control the concerns that come into our minds\u2014about our kids, finances, health, jobs or anything else. But we <\/span>can <\/span><\/i>choose what we do with those thoughts once they appear. Some people will say, \u201cThat\u2019s just the way I am! I\u2019m a worrier!\u201d But, sisters, worry is a temptation toward a sinful habit of not trusting God. We have the ability to hand our worries over to God, focus on His promises, and have peace.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In that endodontist\u2019s chair, I took a few logical anti-anxiety steps \u2013 I accepted a cold bottle of water and said, \u201cYes please,\u201d to using the heavily-weighted x-ray vest as a blanket! But I also asked the doctor, \u201cCan I have a minute?\u201d and sent a text to friends to ask them to pray. I gave God all those worries and affirmed that I knew he was with me, even in the fear. Then I trusted that God would show up. And he did. I had great peace for the whole root canal procedure. I was reminded again that peace is not the absence of concern; it\u2019s the ability to entrust that concern to the One who loves us and walks with us every step of the way.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Questions:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. How do you normally approach worry in your life?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What have you found that helps capture the anxious thoughts roaming free in your head?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"I confess that I am a wimp about pain. After a season of feeling invaded by treatments for breast cancer, my brain has moved into \u201cprotect\u201d mode.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"When Worry Washes Over You","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}