When you are down, flat on your back, you have nowhere to look but up. You are helpless, crying out for help, because you can no longer handle it.
An alcoholic may reach rock bottom when she has killed another driver. A drug addict may get there when his crack buddy dies of an overdose. A sex addict may get there when he contracts an STD.
What if you are addicted to worry? What could cause you to reach rock bottom?
Some worriers are fixers. You worry about things until you figure out how to fix them. Then you worry until your fix them. Or you worry until the situation blows over. Or you worry until some other hero comes in to save the day.
Worry has seemed to work for you. If you didn't worry, everything would fall apart. Other people should thank you for worrying. But they rarely do.
You rationalize: Your worry is not hurting anyone else. You can stop anytime you want. Everybody worries about something. You deserve to worry because of all your responsibility. It's just your temperament to worry.
Is there a 12-Step program for worriers? Is it an addiction?
Worriers can reach rock bottom. It hurts. It is depressing. Rock bottom comes with a circumstance that is completely beyond your control, so severe that there is no way out and no turning back.
You finally realize that your worry won't help. (It never has, but you've never admitted that.)
You realize that your effort cannot fix it.
You are finally flat on your back, powerless, forced to look up.
God loves you enough to allow you to face that rock bottom. He is freeing you from your addiction to worry. Not over your worry yet? Then this is not rock bottom.
Look out.
