It's the Big One
Theme of the Week: Weed Out Worry
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Key Bible Verse: The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade (Psalm 121:5).Bonus Reading: Psalm 121:1-8
One summer we visited Yolanda's parents in Desert Hot Springs, California, where temperatures hit 119 degrees. As I began a late-morning run down the street, the dry heat felt invigorating. But after more than two miles of virtually effortless gliding, I decided to turn around and head for the house.
Desert Hot Springs is perched on a 15-degree incline, and my in-laws' house is near the top. Facing more than two uphill miles in triple-digit heat under a cloudless sky, I ran four blocks, walked one; ran two blocks, walked one; ran 30 feet, walked the rest. By the time I lurched through the front door, I was seeing spots.
An hour after hydrating and a cooling shower, I still felt weak. Yolanda and I left for a drive to Palm Springs, but my anxiety heightened as I drove. Everything seemed dark. I'd never passed out before; was I about to? Was I having a heart attack? An aneurysm? Heat stroke? Glaucoma? For miles I bravely kept my fears to myself. But after ten minutes of agony, it was too much. I tried to be delicate in notifying Yolanda of my imminent death. "Everything's going black!" I whimpered. "I don't know what's happening!"
She took it well. "Oh, yeah," she said, "it's the eclipse."
—Chris Blake in Searching for a God to Love
My Response: A major worry of mine that proved to be baseless was …
Thought to Apply: Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.—SWEDISH PROVERB
Adapted from Searching for a God to Love (Word, 2000) by permission.
Copyright © 2007 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity.
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