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An Alcoholic in the Family—What Can You Do?Awake!—1982 | December 8
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Anxiety: Do you face financial problems due to your loved one’s drinking and are you extremely worried about how you will make ends meet? “Stop being anxious,”c counsels Jesus about life’s necessities. “Your heavenly Father knows you need all these things” and he can and will provide for those who make his worship a chief concern in their life. (Matthew 6:25-34) Jesus then gives a most practical suggestion for defeating anxiety—live one day at a time.
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An Alcoholic in the Family—What Can You Do?Awake!—1982 | December 8
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c The original Greek word merimnao literally means “to have the mind distracted.” As used by Jesus, it refers, not to proper concern, but to worried fear that ‘distracts’ or divides the mind, taking the joy out of life.
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