A. Cast anxieties on God. People are anxious about many things. Every food causes cancer. Bankruptcy could be just around the corner. Your family may stop loving you.
Anxiety divides our attention and distracts.
Antidote is trust in God. Jamie Buckingham tells about a pilot in Ecuador who was involved in a plane crash because of a passenger's fear. The wheels of the heavily loaded Cessna 206 had barely left the wet jungle airstrip when the passenger, sitting in the co-pilot's seat, panicked. The pilot had the throttle pushed all the way forward to the firewall. He had done this many times before and was confident they would clear the huge trees towering at the end of the little airstrip.