Dealing With Anxiety When Life Is Uncertain

For weeks, I couldn’t sleep through the night.

I went to bed, woke up at 3 a.m. and stared at the ceiling.

I tried counting sheep.
I tried reading my Bible.
I tried saying my prayers.
Nothing worked.

Every night was another sleepless carbon copy of the night before.

Then I began to look for a root cause in my behavior. This led me down a familiar path. Like a slow leak on drywall, I discovered my sleepless nights were a byproduct of a larger problem.

It began with the rapid and ever-changing circumstances in our world. Then it was compounded by situations in my life and the lives of those I love. Gradually, I began to entertain unrelenting “what ifs” until I was steeped in full-blown worry.

What if things don’t work out?
What if the worst happens?
What if the situation never changes?

I wanted to give every difficult circumstance a happy ending, but the problems I saw were beyond my control. The outcome of these mammoth-sized issues depended on God alone. This is where I struggled: perpetually agonizing over circumstances I could not change.

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