Tool Kit

I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them                                                                                      I Timothy 2:1

I recently spoke with a client who struggles with anxiety. We discussed his “escape tool kit,” which is my name for the plan of action to be deployed at the times when anxiety “overthink” gets troublesome.

We talked about his kit, and he stated that one effective tool he uses is to pray for someone else when he starts to feel the revving up of anxious thoughts in his mind. When he does this, he feels that he has taken the attention away from himself and has begun to consider the needs of others.

I thought that this was a brilliant strategy. He believes that gratitude and anxiety cannot exist in the same plane. So, he prays for others to dissipate the overthinking on his own worries.

I told him that his strategy was brilliant.

Prayer: Help us to remember that praying for others serves us as well, Amen