When anxiety weighs on our hearts, Jesus invites us to seek first the Kingdom of God. This homily short reflects on bringing our worries to Him through prayer, thanksgiving, the Eucharist, and Confession.
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Have no anxiety about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication and thanksgiving let your requests be known to God. The truth is that at times and in various degrees we all have anxiety. We have anxiety in our relationships with money, with health issues, kids have anxiety of being bullied at school and all of the troubles beyond our own little world that exists across the globe.
We’re in good company folks because Saint Paul had anxiety and even probably the greatest anxiety ever in this planet was experienced by our Lord on Thursday, Holy Thursday in the Garden of Gethsemane where in his anxiety and his agony he sweat blood for the sins of the world and for his imminent crucifixion. In God’s providence he allows this to occur in our lives. It can lead us to a deeper faith and trust in him and the critical issue for us is how do we deal with anxiety? First of all the fundamental core of dealing with anxiety in our life is found in the words of our Lord.
Seek first the kingdom of God Jesus told us. Do not be anxious about your life but seek first the kingdom, the reign of Jesus of the kingdom of God in your life and many of those anxieties that we have when we do that fade and dissipate when we give our hearts to our Lord and then we must pray. We must dedicate ourselves to prayer and supplication and thanksgiving as Paul said requests being made known to God in addition to that prayer and giving it all to God through prayer we should really relish and cherish the sacraments especially the Eucharist and the confessional and finally the great fisherman of Galilee himself Peter who in fearful anxiety denied even knowing Jesus three times would later write in his letter to the exiles in Asia minor cast all your anxieties on him then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard