Reflections 10/17/2020: God, thank You for Sarah Young’s thoughts shared in “Jesus Calling.” I love how she writes from Your perspective, Your heart. It would seem presumptuous, except as I run the words through the grid of the promises in Your Word, they ring absolutely true! And how true is this?! “Anxiety is the result of envisioning the future without Me.” Holy smokes! How simple is that?! Not always simple to do, (envisioning You), but when implemented, it is a simple antidote for anxiety. “Include Me.” Physiology is a factor for sure. But once the biochemistry has been courageously addressed, the mental piece of including You can bring unexplainable Peace. For me, that Peace isn’t so much a factor of expecting everything to go perfectly in that impending future, but rather that I don’t go it alone. Or without rhyme and reason for the things that happen to me under Your sovereign and loving control. Got my cancer tumor markers score back yesterday and they had gone up. Slightly (1.5 points), but nonetheless up. So this anti-anxiety prescription is very relevant for me right now. And I choose to envision You in whatever my future holds.