Peter 5:7
Cast All Your Anxieties on Your Father
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
So much is missed out on when one has anxiety...Some people, especially those with anxiety and depression often use avoidance and aversion as a way to protect themselves from their negative anxious thoughts and their pain...These avoidance behaviors are one's actions a person takes to escape from difficult negative thoughts and negative feelings...The anxious one is often trying to insulate himself from his pain, his tension, and the anxiety that he has...
Some inspiring Scripture I use to for positive affirmations are the following to assist me when I have anxiety...Let us believe in God and His Son...Let us say: Do not let our hearts be troubled...Believe in God; believe also in Jesus...Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, or what you will wear today...Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself...Each day has enough trouble of its own...Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength...They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint...
Author Philip Yancy writes about the experiences of the elderly and how he wants to live out his life...“Spiritual experience is nourished best in the wilderness...When I am old, I hope I do not spend my days between sterile sheets, hooked up to a respirator in a germ-free environment, protected from the hazards of the world outside...I hope I’m on a tennis court, straining my heart with a septuagenarian overhead smash...Or perhaps on a final hike, huffing and puffing along a trail to Lower Yosemite Falls for one more feel of the spray against my wrinkled cheek...In short, I hope I do not so insulate myself from pain that I no longer feel pleasure.”...