Calm Down
In the forty minutes I spent on the treadmill today at the gym, I watched CNN display headlines…………Iraqi government collapsing, 1.2 million Americans will forclose on their homes in the next two years, home foreclosures will bring on a worldwide recession, global warming is causing the world to self-destruct…….and on it went. I thought to myself, no wonder people are stressed.
The situation was amplified by the fact that I was praying for someone, while on the treadmill, whose e-mail I had read just before leaving for the gym. It was the panicked e-mail of a person overwhelmed with life’s issues while being surrounded by a group of nay-sayers. I prayed, “God, how do we cope.”
God said, “he leads me beside the still waters.” In the midst of it all, God provides. Thanks be to God.