Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair and right now we're going through exodus.

A few years back my husband and I started our familiar 13 hour trek down to

Dessin Florida to visit my parents. This time though, the first two

hours of our drive were some of the most anxiety-inducing hours I've ever had in a

car. We'd left really early and as soon as we crossed over into Illinois, a dense fog settled on the roads.

You couldn't see anything but the road right in front of you.

My anxiety was at an all-time high.

And although I knew that the road continued beyond what I could see,

my brain kept warning me that I couldn't be sure we weren't about to drive directly into danger and off of a cliff.

If you've ever driven in fog, you know it's scary, and it's really disorienting.

You know the road still exists more than the 20 feet you can see.

You know there's signs telling you where to exit and how many miles to go until you reach your destination.

You know that highways don't just randomly end in cliffs.

But when the fog is dense enough, it's impossible to see anything but what's right in front of you.

And if you're like me, your brain gets distracted by the fog and it forgets the reality of

the situation. For me, this is a good picture of the situation.

For me, this is a good picture of what happens sometimes in my life.

Hardships or difficulty come into my life and sort of descend over me like a fog. And suddenly all I can see and focus on is the presence of the fog.

I hyper focus on the bad, spiral into anxiety, and forget the reality of what is still good and right and true.

Instead of remembering the road is still there despite the fog, I get scared that all is lost. Maybe you're often like me or maybe you're the

eternal optimist like my husband, but I think in the hardest of life situations, it's human nature to have a hard time seeing

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