God Is Still Near When Anxiety Takes Over the Room
There are moments when anxiety does not feel like a passing thought. It feels like it has moved into the room with you. It sits on your chest while you are trying to breathe. It follows you into the kitchen when you are trying to make coffee. It rides with you in the car. It waits for you at night when the house gets quiet and everybody else seems to be resting. You may not even know how to explain it to someone else because nothing has fully fallen apart yet, but inside you feel like something is already shaking. That is one of the hardest parts of anxiety. It can make you feel like you are fighting a battle nobody else can see, and because nobody else can see it, you start wondering if you are making too much of it. Maybe your life looks normal from the outside. You got up. You answered the messages. You handled what had to be handled. You kept your voice steady when someone asked you a question. You may have even laughed for a moment because real life does not stop just becaus...