Worry started in the garden. Our first response to worry gave birth to the Fashion industry, and we have been worrying about what to wear ever since! Looking at what we wear at the beach it seems fig leaves are making a come back.
Worries first order to hide, conceal, and repress. For the very threat of the fear, is everything about to be taken away. It puts us in the state of Prey. If we can stay quiet and still for just a moment that this predator will pass and we will be safe. What we don't often realize, this predator is ourselves.
Worry is a debt. It is a debt caused by wronging someone else, or maybe ourselves. It is a debt often we do not know how, or cannot repay.
Worry is an infectious disease, it tends to spread into the Healthy cells of our lives. Just like our biological cells, it looks for the opportunity to infiltrate our relationships, our work, our purpose. It puts us in a state of an emotional autoimmune response where everything is now under attack. As worry grows and destroys us from within.
Jesus told us 57 Times do not worry. A research paper claims that we spend as much as 2 hours or 1/12th of our Day worrying. To make matters worse, 85% of what we worry about never happens.
If I told you that I wanted to spend 2 hours a day to prepare on becoming the Queen of England, what would your response be? How is it any different than some of the things we worry about?
This is an excerpt from How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie.
"Oh, yes," he said, "when a boy realizes that he is going to be a cripple for life, he is shocked at first; but after he gets over the shock, he usually resigns himself to his fate and then becomes as happy as normal boys." I felt like taking my hat off to those boys. They taught me a lesson I hope I shall never forget.
You see there's a cycle to our emotional makeup. A circulatory system if you will. A journey from our mistakes, to fears, to confession, to repentance, resigning to our fate, to making a meaningful change through restitution. Finally being able to rest in our peace.
Worry is a stoppage in this process. It lodges itself into our emotional artery wall right after it passes by our mistakes and fears and clogs the passage to prevent the completion of a healthy emotion cycle. This leaves us emotionally stunted, for fear and worry keep us from the necessary action used to make us grow.
