Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

by Max Lucado

Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake… somewhere.

This is such a great analogy!

We have been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don’t have peace, we assume the problem lies within us.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.

That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can’t take control, because control is not ours to take.

there is never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near.

To be at home is to feel safe.

As long as Peter focused on the face of Christ, he did the impossible. Yet when he shifted his gaze to the force of the storm, he sank like a stone.