An Exodus from Anxiousness
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Live one day at a time.
“Essentially, this means that each individual has a daily obligation to feed their spiritual needs, including managing their own sobriety. ... This allows individuals in recovery to not have to fret over a commitment to sobriety forever, but only the present day.”
- discoverynj.org
In recovery communities, substance and psychological, focusing on one day at a time is a common practice to ease the overwhelming anxiety of thinking about everyday…. From now until the end of your life…. And figuring out how to make it through.
I find this very helpful managing my own survival fears of the future. When my mind drifts to “all I need to do to make it”, I can find myself becoming paralyzed with anxiety…. and I don’t actually do any of it. Instead I find something meaningless to watch on my phone to distract myself from the real conversation I need to have.
At one time, a group of people found themselves lost and in the wilderness of life. The invisible God that led them to this uncomfortable place gave them just what they needed everyday. No more. No less. It’s as if Providence was slowly transforming their way of learning how to thrive in the world, and that way was paying attention to what was demanded of the day.
Later on that same Providence gave his followers a prayer to whisper in the face of overwhelming anxiety…
“give us, this day, the bread we need for it…”
Maybe our invitation, today, is the same?
Not to say you shouldn’t save for retirement. Like go open an Retirement account immediately and start putting something in it!
But this day, the one you find yourself overwhelmed with because you’ve invited your entire imagined future in with it…
Offer the anxiety ridden invented future to Providence, and simply whisper,
“Please just give me whatever I need for today.”
Thus begins your transformational Exodus from an anxious life.