Anxiety is a gift that keeps on giving. Edwin Friedman in his book, GENERATION TO GENERATION: Family Process is Church and Synagogue, writes that people can either act as circuit breakers or transformers of anxiety. The circuit breakers meet another person's anxiety and mollify it by their non-anxious response. On the other hand, transformers carry so much of their own anxiety that when they encounter another's anxiety they add to it, thus, transforming it to a higher voltage.
This reminds me of the old joke about an elderly couple. She was a hypochondriac and always worried about their health. She was very fussy about their diet always with an anxious air about the terrible things that could happen. Finally they died and went to heaven. She was ecstatic about how wonderful every thing was. He finally said, "Well, we could have been here a long time ago if you hadn't made us eat all that wheat germ!"
My prayer of the day; "Lord make me a circuit breaker!"
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