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Hey, it's so great to be with you today on the Daily Drive podcast. My name is Mike, and we're walking

together through a book of the Bible called Philippians, and we are all the way to Chapter 4. And so for the next few days, we're going to talk

about worry and anxiety. Now, I love the old recovery line that says serenity is not found in

calmer seas, but in learning how to build a better boat. And this chapter is kind of a manual for building a

better boat that can handle the seas of anxiety. It really has been my go-to text through the years

when I feel anxiety coming on. A guy named author Roche said this about worry. Worry is a thin stream

of fear trickling through the mind.

If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

So let me ask you, what's draining your thoughts these days?

Perhaps what's started as just a thin stream of fear has now turned into this raging river of anxiety and it has you living with your

head barely above the water line. Well, if so, you're not alone. The latest stats show that some

kind of anxiety disorder affects over 40 million adults in our country, and I'm sure that is

continuing to surge upwards. In fact, all of us

wrestle with anxiety to some degree, whether physiologically or emotionally or because of stressful

circumstances, all of us have to do battle with fear and anxiety and worry. And so what Paul writes

here has literally been some of the most meaningful words to me in my entire life.

When I get stressed out, when I start to worry about stuff, when I feel like anxiety or

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