HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY

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Phillipians 4:6-7

⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

       Let's face it...you are not going rid of your life of the causes of anxiety; there will always be rumors of wars and wars themselves, everything from nation to nation to person to person.

       But you can achieve control over your anxieties and sometimes an eradication of these bugaboos of the brain.

       I speak from recent personal experience.  A broken hip should b e a first class factory of anxiety production but I give you my word.  My anxiety factory has been working undertime as against overtime and I credit my Lord and a backlog of faith that has charged to the forefront and done me well.

       I've done this more than once...indeed my wife has always said "The bigger the problem the better you handle it."

       First, on the list for eclipsing or at least shrinking your anxiety is "Thanksgiving."

Make a list you are thankful for and check them twice. 

       It certainly beats having a pity party or a crying jag.  That's when emotions gone out of control take you where you don't want to go.

       In short, don't get into playing the "What if?" game or "What was?"  Deal with the good "What is?" truths. 

       Your left arm is paralyzed (I've been there)?  Become an expert on right arm accomplishments.  (My left never has regained all it'strengh or mobility.)

       You can't walk as well as once you could or not at all?

        Say a thanksgiving prayer for your limp or the invention  of the wheel chair does give you mobility, not the kind you would like but still mobility.

       You are having a vision problems, hearing problems, I haven't the time to name all the problems flesh can grow heir to but whatever is your problem...accentuate the positive ...otherwise the negative will accentuate on you.

       Actually, let's all join in an agree that because we are human we all are prone to worry...about real problems and in between problems and problems that really aren't problems at all. 

       And, yes, those of you who came here this morning with some kind of worry hanging around or that was hanging around not that long ago...raise your hand. 

       Please note...my own hand is raised.

       Alright... all of you have recently had some problems to worry about...or most of you...I did note some hands that weren't raised.

       I've used this Emma Bombeck story before but it is too good a story not to use again as we look at a prime example of how easy it is to worry about things that are a complete waste of time to worry about. 

       It is about a little boy named Donald and his attitude towards the first day of school. 

"My name is Donald. I don't know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth, and I didn't sleep last night because I'm worried. What if a bell rings and a man yells, 'Where do you belong,' and I don't know?

What if the trays in the cafeteria are too tall for me to reach?

What if my loose tooth comes out when we have our heads down and are supposed to be quiet?

Am I supposed to bleed quietly?

What if I splash water on my nametag and my name disappears and no one knows who I am?"

       Now, yes, I am aware that there are hormonal and chemical reasons for some people's anxieties and I definitely believe they should avail themselves of proper medicines that give relief. 

       Still, for all of the most of us, we need to turn to the great heavenly physician.

       One church sign put it well. It read, "If your knees are knocking, kneel on them."

       One person defined anxiety as a gap between one's demands and one's resources.

       I have a new computer with a new program Windows 7.  For  a brief time I was prepared to call it Wall 8 because it was blocking out the sermon I had just finished.  For a little while I was like Donald.  I didn't just make a mountain out of a molehill.  I started planting trees.

    I forgot for a moment a rather basic truth...keep things in proportion.

I prayed about it and Christ and common sense came charging in to slow my anxiety down...but for a bit I fed foolishness and earned what it gave me in return.

       I've heard anxiety called " unconscious blasphemy."  That's strong meat but think about it, if we can't pray and mean "Lord, thy will be done" and mean it because we trust the creator of our life both here and in the hereafter then we that lack of trust really is a bit of blasphemy.

       It's an old joke," You know, "I went to the doctor and I said, 'Doc, when I do this, it hurts.' And the doctor said, 'Don't do that'."

How many things have you been anxious about that were things that you knew before you got into them were probably going to create for you some problems.

       Some sins...some stupid decisions you knew were stupid decisions...past, present and future.  Learn from the past...don't fill up the future with more such stupid decisions and actions.

 

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Acts 20:24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me –the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

To every person who lives as if they believe that Christianity and Christ teachings are madness…I say, “If this be madness then perhaps we should double check our definition of sanity.” 

Yes, I tell you this…my friends…you name me most of the pain and problems that you know of today and I will tell you that a tremendous, overwhelming percentage of them have come from breaking God’s commandments.

IT MAY BE MADNESS to imagine a world in which our noble thoughts have been translated into noble deeds. 

It may be madness to imagine a world no longer selfish, or foolish, or temperamental, or angry, or doubting or sinful. 

But if this be madness, then perhaps we should pray that everyone go mad.

Do you know what our greatest problem is?  We are addicts.  Addicted to compromise.  Why?  Because it is easier than taking a stand.

“Because thou art lukewarm, I will spew the out of my mouth” says the Bible.

And we in reply give the excuse “But I can’t stand the heat.”

We are a strange breed; mankind.  We will organize and sacrifice and drive ourselves with an incessant urge to win wars against enemies from without; but we will not exert half the effort to defeat the enemies from within. 

If we used half the dedication to win the battle of the soul we would come out such victors on the field of living that it would be difficult to believe.  But we don’t.

We battled in Europe and Vietnam and Korea and Iraq and are still battling in Afghanistan.  But the battle on the fields of eternity?  That battle I fear too often we fight as if we are trying to lose it.

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LEISURE, A BLESSING OR A CURSE (Continuation)

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Mark 8:36 

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forget his soul?

       It is not a casual problem, this making the clock your dictator to the point you cannot rest.  This refusing to let the Lord be your Shepherd because you must always be in charge. 

       If you refuse to take time out for the Lord, such a choice will make you lie down not in green pastures but in brown, exhausted pastures.  Such a decision will drop you off into a valley of depression. 

       Business, for the sake of business, will drive you and those around you crazy.  Rushing from one deadline to the next you will find yourself in the valley of dead and dried up souls.  

Does the path you have chosen in life seem to only go around in circles? 

If you are not careful, it will be too late to change and you will fear, oh yes, you will fear yourself for where you have let your ambitions take you. 

Your Lord is willing to lead you in the paths of righteousness, but not if other paths have all or most of your attention.  His rod and His staff will comfort you, but not if you use them to beat yourself to death with overwork.

 He will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies, but not if you daily make new enemies because you are so tired and hard to get along with. 

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life, but not if you are racing along life’s highway so fast they can never catch up with you.  

When Larry Walters was thirteen he read that the local Army & Navy Store had some 7-foot weather balloons for sale.  As he read about them he had the thought that it would be a wonderful idea to fill them with helium and go flying off into the sky. 

He didn’t have the money so it was just a dream.  But twenty years later he had the money and he still had the dream, so he went out and bought forty-two used weather balloons and filled them with helium. 

He put on a parachute, attached himself to a Sears lawn chair and prepared for flight.  He carried with him proper nourishment and a proper method for descent- a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a can of coke, and a BB gun.

It is not that he had not planned for what came next.  It was just that he was infinitely more successful than he had imagined he would be. 

He shot into the air with such great speed that in no time he was 16,000 feet in the air and into part of the flight path of the Los Angeles airport.  Soon a TWA pilot reported he had just passed a man floating in a lawn chair beneath a massive collection of balloons.  The airport sent up a helicopter to check it out.

Not wanting to go any higher, Walters shot down 10 balloons before he accidentally dropped his gun.  All air traffic was shut down until finally two hours later he gently touched back on mother earth.

Reporters on the scene bombarded him with questions. 

“Were you scared?”  “Yes.” 

“Would you do it again?”  “No.” 

“Why did you do it?”  “Because,” he said, “you can’t just sit around doing nothing.”

It is this attitude which demands we must be busy, busy, busy that creates a climate in which lots of really crazy things are done.

 Or not done.  What is crazier than not taking time as a family to sit down and eat dinner together? 

Common sense says this isn’t wasting time, that it is really a productive kind of leisure, but well…one can’t just sit around doing nothing. 

What is crazier than people spending themselves into bankruptcy because if they are not filling every moment with expensive activity they feel they are not living? 

But after all one can’t just sit around doing nothing.  What is crazier than someone trying to exist on four to six hours of sleep with the explanation, “I’ve got too much to do to waste it sleeping?  Can’t just sit and lie around doing nothing.”  If we are obsessed with filling every moment with activity, we don’t just fill it, we bloat it. 

            I don’t imagine anyone here would suggest that our leisure time should be spent aimlessly or frivolously.  Of course, what I may call “frivolous” may be to you great joy. 

       What you call “aimless” may be my lost-in-thought time.  But how many people do you know who would say on their deathbed, “I sure do wish I had spent more time down at the office.” 

So what is a proper balance between work and leisure, and what we do with our leisure time?  There is no one answer that fits all, but there is a question that fits all.   “Who am I, Lord?”

 And can we ever begin to find the answer if we do not stop and listen to the angels sings?  Can we ever know who we are, and why we are if we do not sometimes court silence so we can hear whatever message heaven is trying to send.

       Leisure, is it a blessing to you or a curse?  Actually, whatever is your answer, the answer needs to be filtered through the mighty threesome of religion, work and leisure.   Religion to feed our inner being.  Work to give us a sense of destiny.  And leisure to stop long enough to appreciate it all.  Man does not live by bread alone.  He lives also by putting his eye to the beauty of the world on which he stands, the sky above, his own inner world…and all at the same time never forgetting the maker of all these worlds.

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Luke 2:8-11

And there were shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid.  I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you, He is Christ the Lord.

 

       There were times during past hurricanes here in South Florida when our homes became darkened caves.  And before generators could be started or there was no generator to start, we all lived with only the light of flashlights or some other battery powered source. 

       They were a feeble kind of light as compared with what normally flooded through our windows in daytime or, supplied by the electric company, lighting up our nights.

        After all since it seemed one hurricane might well follow another a lot of us left up our plywood or aluminum shutters. 

       And all this got me to thinking that so it is when we block out the light of Christ or let it shine into our lives. 

       There is no other light quite so bright, quite so warming and comforting and illuminating.  There just isn’t.

       Therefore, if you have found that light of Christ, know what that light means, may I suggest that on your mantle at home, or wherever is appropriate to your line of work, that you place a sign that reads “Christmas is spoken here.”  

       It shouldn’t be something you put up just before Christmas and then right after Christmas take down.  

       It is a sign you can and perhaps should leave up all year round, for you to see and others to see…and all of you to be reminded to practice the art of speaking Christmas.  For…

       Once there was a shining Christmas tree

       Standing out where all could see.

       Lights so bright that all would say

       “I do not want to walk away.”

       It was then one bulb was heard to say,

       “I’m tired of burning night and day.

       Besides I am so very, very small,

       I won’t be missed, no, not at all.”

       Then a little child reached up and touched the light,

       And smiled and shouted “Oh, that’s bright.

       Of all the lights upon the tree,

       This one looks the very best to me.”

       “Oh my goodness,” thought the little light,

       I almost dimmed myself right out of sight.

       I really thought no one would care,

       If I failed to shine and failed to share.”

       Then all at once a great brilliance came,

       For every light had felt the same.

       Ah, our Gospel, like this Christmas tree,

       Is lit by the likes of you and me.

       We each have space that each must fill

       With love and kindness and God’s good will.

       So let us keep alive with light

       With testimonies burning bright.

       For our Gospel is a living tree

       That lights the way to eternity.

(Anonymous, considerable rewrite)

       This Christmas time I give to each of you a few gifts that are really only pin pricks of light as against the greater light of Christ, and I offer them just to let you know that I care about you. 

       I promise to laugh at your jokes and not require you to laugh at mine.

       I offer you a listening ear.

       I offer the gift of trying to get inside your head when I disagree with you.

       I promise to seek to see the best in you and share these findings with others as often as I can.

I give you the gift of not asking you to be perfect in everything you say to me or fail to say to me, or what you do or leave undone.

I promise to pray for you by name and I promise to do it often.

And just perhaps, you might want to consider giving these gifts to others.

The snow has been falling for a long time, and now reaching a depth of 64 feet, it has become a glacier.  

Slowly moving across the land, it is impacting on everything before its path. 

So it is with your faith.  Like soft falling snow, each prayer you pray, each Biblical phrase you read and remember, each noble thought you translate into a deed…like the building of a glacier, you are moving toward that moment when you become a might. 

A mighty might that makes an impact by what you have become and where you are headed.

The scientist Robert Oppenheimer put it so very well when he said, “The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person.” 

Did you know that the word “echo” comes from the story of a nymph named Echo.  In this Greek mythology it is her curse that she can only repeat the last word she has heard?  Well, as always, I got to thinking and decided to reverse the curse a bit…just to make a point.  Suppose that for the rest of your life - we’ll leave eternity out of this for now - suppose that for the rest of your life you had to repeat the last sentence you spoke this morning.  No editing.

 Just over and over and over again the same sentence. 

The last statement you made that at that moment defined who you were. 

Suppose you had known just before you spoke it that you would have to keep repeating it over and over again. 

Would you have edited it some, or eliminated it and gone back several sentences? 

It is Christmas day and I ask you to consider giving the world…giving yourself…the gift of more and more sentences that could bear repeating…over and over and over again.

In our backyard, just north of our fence are two tall palm trees with a great big red ribbon tied around the both of them, still in their nursery containers waiting to be planted. 

They will fill in a space left empty by the hurricanes that destroyed the illusion that I live in a forest. 

I love trees and we have a lot of them. And I definitely love these new additions, but the reason I bring it up and share with you now is not just because they are a gift given to me by three of my children, but because as trees they are growing thing. 

And as I hope and pray my trees will grow tall and full and in the right direction, so do I hope and pray that we all will do the same.  We are growing things; we of body, mind and soul, and as growing things if we healthily grow in the right direction there is more of heaven in us, and if not, there is more of hell.

Christmas ...The celebration of a timeless event measured in hours and minutes and seconds, and how much love has already been spread around. 

Look around you and take in the faces of family and friends and visitors and right now say a brief prayer for them. 

Give them the gift of lifting them up before the throne of grace. 

Think of it, you and I, all of us right now, all together praying for each other.  Rekindling each others spirits. 

Can you think of a better Christmas gift? 

She was such a sweet little girl but she was lost. 

Somewhere out in those fields and forest, acre after acre around her, she was lost and all day long they searched for her, but never found her. 

And the second day came, and it was very cold and hope was receding and by the end of that harrowing day they still had not found her.

 On the third day, someone suggested they all hold hands and walk as one body, loving, caring, united body and on the third day they found her.      She was dead, as by now you may well have imagined, for the temperature had dropped below zero. 

And when they found her the mother could only repeat over and over again, “Why didn’t we join hands sooner.”

Reach out to the person next to you, or in front of you or behind, and hold hands.  A moment of unity as against so many times a pushing away.

This is our gift each to the other - a very brief time of unity.

       And as we are holding hands, we are also heart to heart.  I give this to you; my love, my prayers, my concern.  Give the same back to me. 

And may we do it more often even when we are miles apart.

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       Many Kinds of Slavery - But Are They Not All Very      Much The Same? (July 2012)

       Here Comes Summer (July 2012)

       Spring (May 2012)

       Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)

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