anxiety

(based on Philippians 4:4-7)
"'In everything,' Paul says, they are to keep on praying. Come Hell or high water, they are to keep on asking, keep on thanking, above all keep on making themselves known. He does not promise them that as a result they will be delivered from the worst things any more than Jesus himself was delivered from them. What he promises them instead is that 'the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.'
The worst things will SURELY happen no matter what-that is to be understood-but beyond all our power to understand, he writes, we will have peace both in heart and in mind. We are as sure to be in trouble as the sparks fly upward but we will also be 'in Christ,' as he puts it. Ultimately not even sorrow, loss, death can get at us there." Buechner