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This weekend, I’m teaching at a church here in Denver on Anxiety and how to let God guide you through seasons of stress.
This is ironic, because for the last few weeks—to be honest— been in the throes of Anxiety.
I’ve had a lot going on (I know, who doesn’t?). I’ve been going, going, going, thinking everything I do is of vital importance.
My day job has felt nuts and like I’m constantly, secretly, right on the precipice of failing.
I”m hustling, hustling, hustling to get things ready for the launch of the I Am a Field book.
I’m up at at ‘em (right now!) at 3:30 am to fly to Chicago to record the audio book.
I know it’s important for me to be a good, engaged daddy to my girls.
I want to be a great husband to Wife K… and to celebrate her and her birthday this week the way she deserves.
There are emails to return. Texts to respond to. House chores to do. Friends to check in on.
All that… and a weekly blog post to write.
Today’s blog post. This blog post. And it’s stressing me out.
So, to sum up: this weekend, I have to talk to a bunch of people about how to let God help them through seasons of Anxiety—seasons like the one I’m in—and… well, I haven’t been doing a good job of letting God into my Anxiety.
I’m a bit of a (religious word alert) hypocrite.
I know God wants me to slow down. Cut out some things. Do less. Focus on what’s most important.
I need to take what I know to be true—God doesn’t want us to be anxious—and put my money where my mouth is. I can’t just believe something is true. It only matters if I live it.
So… in that spirit… this is all the blog post I have in me today. This. Right here. A couple hundred words. That’s all.
And I think that’s okay.
Maybe it’s better than okay, though. Maybe it’s… good.
Maybe it’s me fighting back against that age old tendency to preach about—but not live out— the truth.
So here you go.
I’m gonna live what I know to be true.
I hope you can, too.
I’ll end with this—what do you know in your head and heart to be true… but haven’t put into action yet? Don’t waste time thinking and feeling truth. Let it affect you. Do something it’s calling you to do… or don’t do something it’s calling you away from.
Truth in action is life indeed.