Surrendering the Day's Anxieties

Lord, I just woke up and the anxiety is already here. Before my feet hit the floor, my mind is racing — the tasks, the deadlines, the conversations I am dreading, the problems from yesterday that followed me into today. "Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" — Matthew 6:27 No, Lord. Worry adds nothing. It only takes — takes my peace, my focus, my joy, my health. And yet every morning, I reach for it like a reflex.