“Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single cubit to his life?” (Matthew 6:27).
Norman Vincent Peale tells the story of a woman who came to him for counseling. She was filled with anxiety and fear — “worried almost out of her senses,” Dr. Peale says.
It seems that she had suffered a minor heart attack a few months earlier and, even though she had made a good recovery, she was overwhelmed by the fear that she might die at any moment. She kept talking compulsively about this fear until, finally, Dr. Peale held out his hand, palms up, and said, “Put it there!” “Put what there?” the woman asked. “Your problem,” Peale said. “This thing that is worrying you, I know it’s invisible, but I also know that it’s very real. I want you to stretch out your hand and place it in mine.” The woman hesitated. Then she put her hand in his. Whereupon, Dr. Peale got up, walked to…
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