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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No Anxiety Allowed – The Problem
This article is the fourth in the “No Anxiety Allowed” series. I recommend reading the others, start here first.
I’ve written about why we should learn to live free of anxiety, and how that can be done. I’ve written about how I’ve tested it out myself and found that it’s not only possible, but practicable. I’ve talked about how living as a “Christian” obliges us to learn how to do this, and gives us the guarantee that as we do, we will find peace.
But, anyone who has walked this earth for more than a decade will tell me that all the theory in the world doesn’t match up to the reality: it is not that easy!
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I was invited to speak at the International Christian Church in Port Vila, Vanuatu on October 30, 2016. This is what I shared.
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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