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A God Box: A Practice For Surrendering Worries & Fears

A God Box: A Practice For Surrendering Worries & Fears, by Kristen Noel. Photograph of a God Box by Bill Miles
Photograph Kristen’s God Box by Bill Miles

Worry begets worry. It doesn’t solve problems. What if
instead, you could gather up your fears, anxieties and worries and hand them
over to someone else?

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Recently on the phone with my Aunt, I told her about my ‘God
Box’. What’s a God Box you ask (and so did she)? Well…

Let’s face it, we reach life saturation points from time to time, perhaps more often than we like. For myriad reasons we hit a wall; those moments. Sometimes I self-help modalities (been there done that) and excited by the prospect of something new (the eternal optimist).

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