✝ Daily Encouragement (10/21/25) "Free From Anxious Thoughts"
Published: Tue, 10/21/25
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(Click refresh or reload for current message) Tuesday, October 21, 2025 
On
our trip to
New England
last week we
visited the
Creamery
Covered Bridge
in
Brattleboro,
Vermont.
There
are just over
100 authentic
covered
bridges left
in Vermont.
Interestingly,
it has a
walkway for
pedestrians
and lattice
work in place
of a cut out
for viewing
the creek
below.
Click to enlarge photo
Early
each morning
this week
(around
6:00AM) I
drive through
one of our
many Lancaster
County covered
bridges in the
course of
transporting
Amish school
teachers from
their homes to
the one room
schools where
they teach.
It's hard not
to smile as
you drive
through and
hearthe
distinct sound
of
the old wood
boards
creaking.
After all, how
often do you
drive a
vehicle over a
wood
surface!
"Free
From Anxious
Thoughts" Note:
Today
is
Brooksyne's
birthday and
also the
29th
anniversary of
this ministry. Message summary: May God help us all to be free from our anxious thoughts!
Listen
to our message
on your audio
player.
"It
is in vain
that you rise
up early and
go late to
rest, eating
the bread of
anxious toil;
for He gives
to His beloved
sleep" (Psalm
127:2). "Say
to those who
have an
anxious heart,
'Be strong;
fear not!'"
(Isaiah 35:4).
"Do not be
anxious about
anything, but
in everything
by prayer and
supplication
with
thanksgiving
let your
requests be
made known to
God"
(Philippians
4:6). "Casting
all your
anxieties on
Him, because
He cares for
you" (1 Peter
5:7).
The
remainder of
this week we
will consider
lines from a
song titled
"Christ Our
Wisdom" that
we
enjoy singing
and find the
words to bring
tremendous
guidance to
our daily
living for
Christ. We
will share a
link to the
song with each
message so you
can listen to
it if you so
choose and we
will also post
the entire
four stanzas.
If you care to
you can listen
here
(from our
church service
this last
Sunday). Today we consider a line from the song that says, "Free us from our anxious thoughts".
How
many of you
deal with
anxious
thoughts?
Anxiety is a
very common
emotional
affliction and
certainly not
new to our
age. It is
addressed all
through the
Bible with
representative
verses in our
daily texts.
Jesus
addressed the
subject of
anxiety,
commanding His
followers to "not
be anxious
about your
life"
(Matthew
6:25).
Anxiety
is defined as
an emotion
characterized
by an
unpleasant
state of inner
turmoil and
includes
feelings of
dread over
anticipated
events. Worry
and anxiety
are
essentially
the same.
Paul
wrote "Do
not be anxious
about anything".
Anything,
that pretty
much covers
any subject
matter that
comes to mind,
doesn't it?
Like Martha we
can be "anxious
and troubled
about many
things"
(Luke 10:41).
"Anxious"
translates a
Greek word
merimnao that
means "to turn
over and over
in the mind".
Isn't that
just what we
do when we are
anxious or
worry?
The
Precept Austin
commentary
states, "The
idea inherent
in merimnao is
that of an
individual
attempting to
carry the
burden of the
future by
themselves and
expressing an
unreasonable
anxiety
(especially)
about things
over which one
has no
control."
The
first daily
text seems to
describe the
restlessness,
"It is in
vain that you
rise up early
and go late to
rest",
that often
comes with
anxiety as "eating
the bread of
anxious toil".
But what a
blessing that
"He gives
to His beloved
sleep".
That's the
peace like a
river in my
soul. Worry has a fascinating etymology which can be traced back to the Old High German "wurgen" which means "to strangle" which is what worry does to our joy and peace! May God help us all to be free from all our anxious thoughts!
Be encouraged today! Hebrews 3:13 Stephen
&
Brooksyne
Weber
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources
"Christ Our Wisdom" Watch on YouTube This is from our service Sunday at Calvary Church here in Lancaster County PA. This song has very thoughtful lyrics and our messages the remainder of this week will be based on lines that especially grip our heart: Christ our wisdom, we are humbled When You hide Your ways from us You have purposes unnumbered Each one good and glorious Help us trust when we grow weary Free us from our anxious thoughts Give us grace to see more clearly You are God and we are not [Verse 2] Christ our wisdom, be our gladness When we fail to understand You ordain all joy and sadness To fulfill Your perfect plan Help us know You rule with power Over every raging flood In our most uncertain hour You are God and we are loved [Verse 3] Christ our wisdom, we will follow Though the way ahеad is veiled As we journеy through the shadows Grant us faith where sight has failed Help us cling to Your commandments Strengthened by Your faithful Word We will never be abandoned You are God and we are Yours [Verse 4] Christ our wisdom we adore You For the beauty of the cross Once in foolishness we scorned You But Your blood has ransomed us Help us sing the endless mercies Of Your humble heart to save Christ our wisdom, Christ our glory You are God forever praised
"Cares
Chorus"
Watch
on YouTube
Steffany
Gretzinger
I am sure this
simple chorus
has brought
peace to many
over the
years. The
song is
copyrighted in
1978 and we
especially
recall singing
it church in
our younger
years. But the
truth has not
changed! I
dedicate it
today to our
friends Larry
and Cindy. What Do You Do When You Worry All The Time? by Jay E Adams pdf This is the best short treatment on the subject of worry I've ever read.
Today
is Brooksyne's
birthday!
She begins her
8th decade of
life outside
her mother's
womb. (Her
life began 9
months
earlier)
We have
something
special
planned! Our Daily Encouragement ministry also began 29 years ago on this date. Here's some info about Daily Encouragement Net: Daily Encouragement Ministry Chronology
October
20, 1996 -
Preached a
message from
Hebrews 3:13
about
encouraging
one another
daily and
queried the
congregation
on how we
could practice
this. How
could I
practice this?
October
21, 1996 -
Sent a very
brief
encouragement
email to Nigel
and Laifong
Lee, a young
married couple
in the church
we served. I
did it again
the next day
and then the
next and
haven't
stopped. As
other email
addresses were
added it
developed into
a list (which
at first was
merely a group
list added to
manually one
by one.) Nigel
and Laifong
are still on
the list and
have received
some 7,500+/-
messages.
1999
-
www.dailyencouragement.net
website
developed by
Andy
Larrimore, a
friend in the
church we
served at the
time in New
England. Andy
remains a
friend to this
day. 2004 - Resigned from full-time job with Marketplace Chaplains. 2005 - Developed html email (formatted with photos as opposed to just plain text), began using a listserve which automates the email management, began podcasting daily messages, set up blogs/RSS feeds, Brooksyne "officially" joined in the message preparation. 2006 - Received official endorsement as the first "internet chaplain" from chaplaincy endorsement agency. (I already had endorsement for corporate chaplaincy and Civil Air Patrol chaplaincy.)
Since
that time have
sought to
improve but
basically just
kept keeping
on. Each of these messages since the very first one are stored in a single WORD document which currently has nearly 6,000,000 words and over 9,000 pages (10pt type). However even this total is probably significantly understated since, as many writers know, you tend to type many words that get chopped as you go along or are eliminated in the editing process! Plus we prepare a lot of extra material on the web posts such as photo captions, music descriptions and so forth that aren't even in this archive.
Here's
the very first
daily
Encouragement
message from
Monday,
October 21,
1996:
Last
week we
traveled up to
New England to
see the fall
foliage. We
visited a
number of
sites and rode
several bike
trails. All
this week we
will share
photos from
our trip.
We
visited the Bennington
Museum
in
Bennington,
Vermont
where
Brooksyne once
visited with
her parents in
1992. She was
most
interested
since it has
the collection
of paintings
from Grandma
Moses, who
lived nearby.
But this WASP
car built in
1925 also
makes a good
representative
photo of our
visit! It was
the only car
made in
Bennington as
a luxury car
of them but
only a few
sold. The
driver of this
car drove it
up to the
50's. For
car buffs you
might find the
history of
this car
interesting.
One
morning we
took a two
mile hike
through the
Chesterfield
Gorge in New
Hampshire. It
was quite a
work out! This
photo really
doesn't show
the elevation
differential
Click to enlarge photo 
We
parked at the
Stonewall
Farm near
Keene, NH for
another bike
ride.
Stonewall Farm
has a rich
history traced
through the
descendants of
just two
families from
the mid-1700s
to 1989. It is
now a small
store and an
agricultural
type of
learning
center.
Click
to enlarge
photo
Mount
Monadnock is
the tallest
mountain in
southern NH
and the second
most climbed
mountain in
the world
after Mount
Fuji in Japan.
In this photo
the top was
obscured by
clouds.
Click
to enlarge
photo
Yankee
Magazine
offices in
Dublin
NH.
For many
years,
beginning when
we lived in
New England,
we have
enjoyed
reading Yankee
Magazine,
a very folksy
magazine with
outstanding
photos. They
also publish
the Old
Farmer's
Almanac. When
we passed
their
headquarters
we pulled in
their parking
lot, thinking
they might
have visitor's
area, but alas
they did not.
We expected it
would be a
rather
elaborate
building, but
it was quite
simple and
plain.
Peterborough,
NH is a
quintessential
small New
England
village
Click
to enlarge
photo
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