I fear scarcity.
I forget the abundance that surrounds me.
I fear of going without food, hence I eat far too much and end up with body image battle scars.
I fear of not having enough money, which I've had to deal with for most of my life.
I feared of not getting enough love, which only shows my blindness to the endless love that surrounds me.
I fear of getting physically and emotionally hurt because I look different, love differently, empathize differently.
Holy Spirit, help me release these fears. Help me release the anxiety about my life, about what I will eat or what I will drink, about my body, about what I wear. Remind me that life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Point me to the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet You feed them. Remind me that my anxieties will not add my name to the book of life, nor add a single hour to my life. Take my feet to the lilies of the field, to see how they grow, how they neither toil nor spin, and abound in beauty and life. Breathe your strength in me and through me and around me so that I may place those fears into the soil, where they can feed my already abundant life rather than bury it.
