What's happening in anxiety is we are facing some loss, but what's happening is rather than realizing it's a future loss, we think it's happening right now.

Well, that's Curtis Chang, and he's our guest again today on Focus on the Family with

Jim Daly.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm John Fuller.

You know, John, I hate to use everyone and everybody but I would think most

people experience anxiety in some way. It may be episodic, you know, there's a situation that the anxiety rises up, loss of a job,

a difficulty in your marriage, a pending divorce, whatever it might be.

Those are situations that anxiety is created.

Then there's other times when anxiety is a day by day thing

and we're thinking as we learned last time with our guests that we don't live in the present we look to the future and

then we get anxiety about it what could happen the catastrophe of what might be

there and just the need to seek the Lord to get that under control, to

manage it, not to do away with it. Anxiety is present. We talked last time about how

Jesus himself in the garden was anxious about the pending

crucifixion and his death. And he said, not my will be done, but thy will be done.

It's the same kind of attitude that we need

to give it over to the Lord and trust in him.

Yeah, and we so appreciate our guest.

He's been very transparent and very accessible

in terms of his own struggles, and he's brought a great overview of

scripture and just good mental health practice to the table. He's written a

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