Then it is time to say good-bye.

All we can do is worry?

Have you made worry and anxiety your friends? There is so much going on in our own lives and in the wider world that it can be so easy to feel out of control and that there is nothing we can do about it. All we feel we can do is turn situations over and over in our minds. I know I used to worry so much about things. I even used to practice what I was going to say to people as I was worried about whether I could think of the right thing words. Yet conversations never went the way I imagined because the other person always said something different from what I thought they would. But that didn’t stop me doing the useless worry and practice!

But worrying has to stop. Why? Because these things choke the Word of God in our lives. In the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4 Jesus explains in verse 19 that the Word becomes fruitless in our lives when worry overtakes us.