^{Anxiety is love’s greatest killer.
~ Anais Nin}

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow, brother, of its sorrows; but, ah! it empties today of its strength.
~ Alexander MacLaren, 1826-1910, from Sermons Preached in Union Chapel

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
~ Harry Ironside, 1876-1951, preacher, teacher author

~~~~~~~~ Matthew 6:25-34 ~~~~~~~~

When I was sick, I only looked inward. Through healing, I started seeing everyone else.
~ Rebekah Lyons, contemporary speaker & author

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
~ William Wilberforce, 1759-1833, politician, abolitionist

All artists must learn the art of surviving loss: loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief[…] Artistic losses can be turned into artistic gains and strengths—but not in isolation of the beleaguered artist’s brain[…] We must acknowledge it and share it.
~ Julia Cameron, 1948- , author, artist, playwright

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
~ John Green, 1977- , author

We are living in an age when anxiety is sweeping us further into a polarized, rage-filled world to escape the fears we refuse to name.
~ Dan B. Allender, PhD, professor of counseling psychology

Anxiety is the invitation to go thru the path of pain. [I]n fact, redemption in essence, is going through the path of suffering and out of it, becoming something better than what we started with. That’s the beauty of the Gospel. Becoming something more than before.
~ Curtis Chang, 1968- , theologian, consulting faculty

How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?
~ Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006, American poet, Poet Laureate 1974-76 & 2000