{"id":1782,"date":"2024-01-13T00:15:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T00:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:16","slug":"anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/damse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1784\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-42b013512611c908f35707a96b85f3b8\">As I seize each day, I am thankful for that opportunity.  I am reminded by my faith, that I should be anxious for nothing&#8230;.yet I am. <br>What gives? <br>I do not have the answer, but I do have the solution. <br>     <br>     It is maintaining a constant mindset of being ~~ IN THE MOMENT.  It is much harder to pull off in real time, as time marches on. Deep breathing helps a great deal, also redirecting the small fluff and stuff. <br>Then the night comes with all of its rituals. I am still thankful and I pray that Jesus remains the source of my joy. <br>But no one can see unless I let them in. <br>   Christians aren&#8217;t doormats&#8230;we fail. But just as the sun rises, we are given to a higher calling. It takes faith.<br><br>Where is your sunshine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I seize each day, I am thankful for that opportunity. I am reminded by my faith, that I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bomb-tnt.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}