0Have you ever thrown a pair of headphones into a bag only to retrieve them later in a tangled knot? This happens to me all the time and it's so frustrating! How does this tangling happen? As I begin to unwind the headphones I can't help but feel like this is often what happens in my life as well. Everything seems to be going well but then I find myself tangled in anxiety, depression, jealousy, doubt, anger, discouragement, and the list goes on. I don't always know how I end up there but I know it happens again and again and I am so done with it! I want to live freely and lightly, the abundant life that Jesus promised in John 10:10, and I want that for you too! I don't know if you struggle with a persistent fear or just can't seem to shake that constant heaviness in your heart. Or maybe it is just the everyday low lying hum of anxious thoughts that keep you from getting a good night's sleep. Wherever you are coming from I want to say, I get it. I lived with debilitating anxious thoughts and depressive feelings for much of my adult life. I just thought it was called "life" and I thought that was just who I was. But when I began to meet with the One who made me, I began to realize that there was a lot going on under the surface that I hadn't dealt with. Seeds had been planted in my head and my heart over the years and those seeds had begun to bloom. They had been planted by myself, by others, and by the enemy of my soul. And those things were tangling me.