Anxiety is about tomorrow, the future. Anxiety tries to make us fear something that could happen later. It is not about something happening right now. Consider again the specific worry you just identified. Ask yourself, To which time frame is this anxiety taking me? Is it the past, the present, or the future? Jesus would say every one of your anxieties abducts you from the present and carries you into some imagined future scenario. Even if the anxiety was triggered by a past event—for example, a disagreement with a supervisor last week—anxiety harasses you by projecting you into the future
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