I take the command to cast our anxieties on God not as a simplistic solution to hand over our psychological experience of anxiety, but as acting on the belief that it is God who cares for us, that in fact we can’t care for ourselves. That is the lesson at the center of Christianity: we cannot live a fully human life apart from God. The practice of offering our anxieties to God may not make them disappear, but it will remind us that we are in the hands of our loving Father.
