1488) Occasionally, I’ll take my classes outside for a game of kickball. You remember it, don’t you? I love to watch them because it’s amusing to see how good or bad the kids can kick or throw. I can’t help but smile when a kid is only 25 feet from first base and they overthrow the one on base. Throwing, like other skills, takes practice.

In thinking about kickball, 1 Peter 5:7 instructs us to throw our cares (more correctly translated from the Greek as anxiety) to God. Why? Because he can hold it for you without going under. This act of throwing our anxiety isn’t a onetime thing and in order to get better at it, we need to practice.

Whenever you worry about what’s happening now. Whenever you fear the future. Whatever the source of anxiety is, throw it to God. He can catch whatever we throw to him.

How’s your throw?