{"id":21493,"date":"2026-03-11T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/finding-hope-losing-worries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:12:18","slug":"finding-hope-losing-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/better-living\/emotional-and-mental-health\/finding-hope-losing-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Hope, Losing Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a worrier.<\/p>\n

When I was little, we had a ceramic ashtray on our coffee table decorated with a picture of a tidy little house with a red roof, white picket fence and these words: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. It may never happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, but I did. Worry, that is. About everything. A lot.<\/p>\n

One day I noticed a new freckle on my nose. I\u2019d recently read about something called skin cancer. What if I have skin cancer, too?<\/em> I worried. When I told my mother about my fears and she told me to stop being such a \u201cworrywart,\u201d I worried that all my worrying was going to give me warts!<\/p>\n

Sometimes, when I was busy at school, playing with friends or lost in a good book, worry would leave me alone. But it always returned\u2014chronic, vague and menacing. On the sunniest days it lurked inside me like a storm cloud, threatening to steal my joy.<\/p>\n

As I grew older, I began to see how worry, for me, was more than a bad habit. It was the way I was wired. Worry was my futile way of trying to control the uncontrollable. And, if I was honest, I had to admit that my chronic worry revealed a certain lack of trust not only in myself and others\u2013but also in God. If I truly believed in God, why should I worry about anything?<\/p>\n

One night I tossed and turned in bed, waiting for our teenage son to come home from a party. I glanced at the green glowing numbers of the clock on my bed stand and felt a surge of anxiety. He was 15 minutes past his curfew. Lying there, alone with my racing thoughts, I quickly became convinced that our son was:<\/p>\n

1. Being pulled over by a policeman for some unthinkable infraction that would ruin his life forever, or…<\/p>\n

2. Being loaded onto an ambulance, sirens wailing, lights flashing, heading for the hospital, or…<\/p>\n

3. The Mother of All Fears: lying<\/em> somewhere in a ditch. <\/em><\/p>\n

This was not just any ditch. No, this ditch was a bottomless black hole that contained not only my 15-minutes-past-his-curfew son, but also every deepest, darkest fear I’d ever had. Over the years, I came to think of it as the \u201cworry ditch.\u201d And once I fell into the worry ditch, it was next to impossible to climb out.<\/p>\n

I should mention that throughout this fevered episode of high anxiety, my husband, Tom, (not<\/em> a worrier) was beside me sleeping peacefully. He was also snoring.<\/p>\n

I was about to poke him in the ribs to share my mental distress (and stop his snoring) when I was struck with an insight: Worrying gave me a false sense that I was “doing something” about a problem, when in fact I was actually wasting valuable mental energy and accomplishing nothing!<\/em><\/p>\n

So what, as a chronic worrier, was I to do? I turned to the Bible, which has a lot to say on the topic.<\/p>\n

In Matthew\u2019s gospel, Jesus gets right to the point: \u201cDo not worry,\u201d he says. \u201cWho of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? So do not worry.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that the apostle Paul does not encourage us to \u201cWorry without ceasing.\u201d Instead, he writes, \u201cPray<\/em> without ceasing.\u201d Prayer is both the opposite and the antidote to worry.<\/p>\n

I have a friend who likens her tendency to worry to the \u201cthorn\u201d that, despite Paul\u2019s fervent prayers that it be removed, afflicted him throughout his life. \u201cWhen I find myself worrying,\u201d she says, \u201cI use it as a reminder of how much I need God.\u201d On her nightstand she keeps a plaque that says, \u201cStop worrying and go to sleep. I\u2019ll be up all night anyway. Love, God.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the next time you find yourself tossing and turning in the middle of the night, take a deep breath and remember that:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Worrying is a waste of valuable time and accomplishes nothing!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Worry can be an opportunity to draw closer to God.<\/p>\n

\u2022 God, who loves you and knows what is best for you, has told you not to worry!<\/p>\n

\u2022 God knows what He\u2019s doing. He\u2019s God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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