Hans Christian Anderson
Hans Christian Andersen, famous for such fairy tales as "The Emperor's New Clothes" had a phobia of being
buried alive.
As a result, he always tried to carry a note in his pocket telling anyone who might find him unconscious not to
assume he was dead. He often left another note on his bedside table stating. "I only seem dead" such was
his anxiety until he finally succumbed to cancer in 1875.
We may think such a fear is strange. But do we have fears - that will someday look just as irrational?
Is it possible that the day will come when we look back and marvel at our own anxieties?
Will we one day wonder at that strange person who chose to worry rather than to pray?
Worrying doesn't change anything. But trusting the Lord changes everything about the way we view life.
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