Anxious

Courage

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

2 Timothy 1:7 · World English Bible

A spirit of fear can feel like intelligence. Self-control is less glamorous and more like health. Love is named here so that your alertness does not turn into hardness.

Whom does your anxiety make you less able to love by name?

Restraint

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Matthew 6:34 · World English Bible

Tomorrow will be anxious for itself. That is not cute. It is a limit: you are not required to drink a future you cannot act in yet. Today’s evil is already enough.

What piece of tomorrow can you set down until morning without abandoning anyone?