You say you're having a panic attack, Bunky? Feeling sore afraid, entire body clinched, volts of panic surging from your toes to your nose leaving your brain...sore afraid, clinched, panicked....
Oh, do I have an answer for you! The answer requires that you park your brain, which is already about half off the rails so it's no big deal.
The answer is: Don't fight it, invite it...invite that panic to come right in, side down, have a cuppa.
The trouble being, our reasoning mind is just a tish too smart to fall for that. Invite panic in? It is already in!..and it is running away with us!..we are not stupid!..give us a a pill, a shrink, a funny cigarette, chocolate.
Only we've already learned...repeatedly...that none of those work. We have a terrible feeling that the reasoning mind may be the driver of the panic...that feeling of spiraling ever downward, upward, sideways, crossways...all at the same time. But the reasoning mind balks at the answer being, "Welcome it."
Here's our dreaded crash and burn come to save us.
Having nothing left to lose, we turn to God. We accept finally that our salvation will only be found through spiritual answers. Our invitation to that panic is our turning to God, opening the door to let his power flow out...into us and through us.
We come to believe that God can and will intervene in our life in our behalf. We come to believe that because, having turned to God, we experience that. It is not a theory...we experience it in our walking around world.
We come to know the grace of God can and will...anything.
Thank you.
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