Anxiety & Hope?

[Anxiety - IX]

Anxiety can feel like an uneasy heart.

In us. At our center. Our core.
Where only the people we love can enter.
Where we don’t allow the public to look.
If you place your hand on your chest, and then slide it down six inches . . . right there. Inside.

That’s your “heart”.
And when it constricts.
Compresses.
Aches.
That’s what “uneasy” feels like.

It’s where we might sense something is off.
Not stable.
Imbalanced.

Your anxiety, my anxiety, and hope are sometimes related.

Jurgen Moltmann said hope is not the antidote to your uneasy heart; hope is your uneasy heart. Or, we might say, an uneasy heart is the early sign of hope. It’s hope prior to germination. It’s hope wanting to break in. Emerge.

While anxiety tells us lies, it consistently tells us a truth: “Something’s off."

Hope is a mere step toward discovering what it might be.