Anxiety

Hi...my name is Shannon...and I am a worrier.

We are prepping to leave on a camping trip to Silver Lake in the morning. We will be gone until Sunday. Prepping to take 6 people and one dog camping for 5 days is a lot of work. Luckily, we have access to a pop-up camper and towing vehicle, courtesy of my parents. But still, the food prep and the laundry and the packing is a massive undertaking.

My mom brought over the truck and the camper this afternoon. We set the camper up, switched the car seats to the truck and headed out to some friends for some 4th of July fun. While we were driving we noticed that the truck was shaking when we idled and that when we accelerated, the "service engine soon" light flashed on and off. This could not be good. We called my mom who swore that it had not been doing that before but, said she would meet us at our friends house and attempt to figure out what was going on. They ended up taking it to Auto Zone and were actually able to fix what was going on (at least we hope) and we should be good to go now.

Of course, my brain automatically goes to "maybe this is a sign that we shouldn't go". How silly of me.

I know that worrying is a sin but I can't seem to help myself.

I am afraid the truck will break down. I am afraid a kid will get sick while we are there. I am afraid that one of the adults will get sick. I am afraid we will get in a car accident on the way there or the way back. There are just so many things.

I really need to work on remembering that God is in control.

I have a long way to go.

Happy 4th of July!