FEAR & ANXIETY

Have You ever developed a kind of feverish feeling when you begin to think that things are not working out the way you expected them to, or have you ever been in a situation where you are trying to get at something but it never really comes, or even it does, it doesn't come as quickly as you expected it? The last 2weeks was such a period for me. I looked forward to getting something, I waited for so...so long, but the more I waited, the more it seemed to elude me. This kind of situation is often referred to by some as FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN.

I got so worried that I didn't know I had began to eat a lot!!! So funny, but yeah, it's very true...Before now, I lose appetite when I get worried, but this time around, it was different...he he :) I kept thinking, praying, trying to trust God, but at the same time I was getting a lot...lot confused coz i just couldn't stop thinking. Before I knew it, the scales shot up....I had gained about 4kg...out of nowhere...Phew!!! the food...yeah! the more I got worried, the more I tried to make myself feel okay...unconsciously doing this through snacking (a lot of Junks)!!!

When I realized I had gained a lot more weight, I decided to increase the number of times I work-out. This didn't really help much coz I was still down in the Valley.....thinking, pondering, worrying and feeling depressed.

Hmmm....you might be asking how did it end, or even has the worrying ended? Yeah! It did, and I thank God that it ended in the month of July. It was like a breakthrough for me when on the 30th of July, I received answers to my many questions. Like a flash of light, the answers came very early in the morning at about 7:47am. With a deep sigh of relief and with my heart leaping for Joy and my lips parting to scream the words "Thank You Lord!". It's really a testimony for me, coz this situation almost took my life. It was a matter of life and death...it involved choices.

The choices we make in life affect us a lot. And I've come to realize that what brings fear and anxiety most times is not what we cannot conquer, but it's the situations that we have the power to overcome, but find it difficult to make the CHOICES that will lead us to overcoming them.


NOTABLE QUOTES:

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. - ROSA PARKS.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. - SWEDISH PROVERB.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. - WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.