Americans are less worried than they were last month, according to a new Gallup poll. Worry increased dramatically in March, when the pandemic and governments’ responses hit in full force. The recent decrease in worry coincides with the lifting of many pandemic-inspired restrictions, showing that “reopening America” truly is good for mental health.
It also reveals something else: how much we allow our circumstances to dictate our attitudes. (I’m not talking about clinical depression or other mental illnesses.) Well, of course a global pandemic and an economic crisis are going to make people worried, you might say. If there were ever a good reason to worry, that’d be it, right?
The trouble is that, for Christians, there’s never a good reason to worry, regardless of the circumstances.