For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Pray, and let God worry.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

A few days after I left UConn my mom took me to a psychiatrist in Stamford. After talking with me for an hour, smiling kindly and calmly asking me questions, he diagnosed me. "You have an anxiety disorder," he said. "It's a rare and very unpleasant type called 'plateau panic disorder.' Basically you're having panic attacks that don't ever end.