Editor’s note:

This week we hear from two of our authors and their different experiences with anxiety. Kati and Lisa have different spiritual stories and are at different life stages, but read below to see how God has redeemed and refined both of them through their anxiety, not despite it.

Be encouraged; while your story may not look exactly like someone else’s, it is just another example of how God is so intimately familiar with our lives that he can use any detail or moment as an instrument to draw us back to himself.

Mary Beth Gombita

Of Acne and Anxiety

It started as a stubborn patch of pimples on the left side of my chin.

I was a freshman in college, and until that point I’d never dealt with acne before. Sure, I had the occasional breakout caused by teenage hormones and improper skincare, but it always faded over time.

This time, it didn’t.

All We Can Do Is Keep Breathing

Breathing. It is one of our most basic instincts. From birth to death we breathe – most of the time without giving it any thought. It wasn’t until recently that I considered myself pretty good at breathing. After all, I was alive. Then one day, while meeting with my therapist via Zoom, she asked me “How are you breathing?” I was confused —

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