How then we shall be

After Philippians 4:4-9

How, then, we shall be?

Certainly not besotted

with the modern disease,

the modern addictions

of anxiety. Now, as then,

the Lord is near, his presence

permeating and spreading,

growing so silently and 

subtly that we tend

to miss it, but that is 

our problem, our failure,

he is here and near, and

his peace surrounds us,

guarding our hearts,

guarding our minds.

Reject anxiety, he says;

set it aside. Derangement

syndromes are always

with us, and have been 

since the great expulsion.

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