Who or what have you ever helped by
worrying about it? You help by taking
action. Worry is not action, it is
mental/emotional stress. Worry doesn’t
help the other person. In fact, it may
cause them extra stress knowing you are worried about them.
A brief story here… when our son was
deployed, we received a call from him telling us very little of what was going
on and concluding with, “It isn’t good.”
What is a parent supposed to do with THAT?
This is the exact point I was able to stop
worrying about things. How did I do
that?
I came to the following understandings:
·
I had
absolutely no control over what was happening, or the outcome
·
I
couldn’t take action to assist
·
If I
worried about it, I would make myself crazy
·
God
knows what He’s doing
That was really the key for me. Having faith to believe that even though I
had no clue what was going on, God did, and he also knew the outcome, and no
matter what that outcome would be, it would be for His good.
A few months later, we learned that he had
been “missing, presumed dead” for a few hours that day. I was relieved to hear
that information after the fact. Even if
I had known, I would have to cling to the above bullet points. There is literally nothing that can be done,
but to wait for more information, pray, and trust God.
It’s a hard lesson to learn, but once you
decide that you can trust God with whatever is happening, the worry
disappears. It happened for me. It can happen for you. Let’s talk.
Encouraging others to move positively forward.
#StressManagementwithBiblicalPrincipals
