During my time as a staff member of a ship-based charity, I was directly involved in helping to deliver humanitarian services to remote island locations for years. I’ve seen the impact of delivering life-saving health services, drinking water, and disaster recovery supplies to communities who truly needed help.
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Why Ships?
It seems like a simple question, with a common sense answer to those of us who’ve been involved for a while. But to paint a picture for those who may never have been out on the ocean, lets consider an outreach in the nation of Vanuatu.
No Anxiety Allowed – An Outcome
In the first two parts of this series, I wrote about why as Christians we should be able to find a way to live free of life-crippling worry and doubt…anxiety. I wrote about being in a situation where the drive toward anxiety was very real, very natural, and had potential to negatively impact every day. I explained that as I was preparing for a 5 week international trip, I felt that I needed to be able to do it free of anxiety.
So now is the fun part. How did it work out?
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No Anxiety Allowed…applied?
So what does “no anxiety allowed” look like? Does it look like never being thoughtful, never planning, never considering safety signs? If it does, surely there will be a lot of people who will not even consider it possible, much less attainable for the responsible adult. What if it’s not quite that extreme? Though we’ll end up trying the extremes along the way, what if it’s a personal sweet spot somewhere between being useless because of worry, and being careless in an effort to avoid worry?
The no anxiety life is the life of being free of the worries which cannot achieve actual results. It is the life where concern is allowed, but not permitted to grow into oppressive weight.
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