If you've never worried a day in your life, this isn't the book for you. Everyone else pick up a copy—fast.

Whether you're a single and anxious to meet Mr. Right; a fast-tracker worried about a reorganization; a middle-ager pacing the floor over wrinkles and gray hair; a wife who obsesses over her husband's well-being, or a perfectionist petrified of failure, The Worrywart’s Prayer Book has an answer for you. Using anecdotal stories that mirror our own lives, Scripture, and personalized entreaties, this witty and poignant book demonstrates how the Bible, prayer, and faith in God's Will can help people of all ages learn to break the worry habit and enjoy a calmer, peaceful, God-trusting life.
A truly thought-provoking, funny and uplifting book for anyone who has ever agonized over:

• What People Say are What People Think.
• Ten Pounds of Flesh.
• Change.
• Other People's Lives.
• Terrorism.
• Being Alone.
• Material Possessions, Death, Money, Timing, Accepting Joy . . .
  and everything else.

Get Ready, Get Set . . . Worry

To me, faith means not worrying.

—John Dewey

Blessed is the person who's too busy to worry in the daytime and too tired to worry at night.

—Earl Riney

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

—Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Banish anxiety from your heart.

—Ecclesiastes 11:10

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

—August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Do you get in a tizzy about beginning things—a course, commitment, maybe even a chocolate layer cake? It's a common worrywart trap. I ought to know. This book's a perfect example. First I talked about it for months. Then I worried over whether I'd have enough time to write it. Then, of course, it was, would the right words come? Could I fill a whole book? Would it be any good? Yadda, yadda, yadda. Okay, maybe I was using my anxieties as a form of procrastination. But anyway you look at it, I expended a lot of energy for nothing.

What's wrong with this picture? I forgot about God. And it was only after I put my worrying aside long enough to ask for his help that I was able to get the lead out. It was then I came to realize I needed to make a move—or move on. How many of us can afford to waste time with nothing to show for it? If we put the time it takes to worry to another use—writing, cooking or beginning something—at least we'll have something tangible, good or bad, to show for ourselves. And surely, a sense of accomplishment feels a whole lot better than a headful of empty anxieties.

Today, Lord, I will remember to look to you first and foremost before I start anything. Let me trust your plans for me. Let me anticipate new beginnings—the way I'd imagine you'd want me to—as a child looks forward to a birthday gift. And, Lord, once I do get started, let me trust that you have my very best interests at heart, whatever the outcome, even if it's not what I expected.

©2007. Allia Zobel Nolan. All rights reserved. Reprinted from The Worrywart's Prayer Book : 40. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442.