Daily rituals of fast-paced business, growing workloads, and piled assignments guide us towards success, stardom and prosperity. We are promised feelings of happiness and security. Other people will favor our accomplishments and praise our talent. Long hours spent pouring over textbooks and sucking up to professors are supposed to offer us the dream job, financial freedom and savings galore. If we finally reach for the stars and achieve what we've always hoped for, life will be good.

It's only a half-truth.

Fun careers, full bank accounts, plane tickets to Dubai, and golden retriever puppies manufacture feelings of contentment. A venti white mocha with extra whip and long romantic books about French wars will produce a couple endorphins. Start working out, get your beach body, and flaunt it in front of all the other drooling college kids during Spring Break - I guarantee you'll reach a level of sweet satisfaction like never before. Learn to love poetry, get in touch with your sensitive side, meditate on a wet rock off the side of a cliff in China and kick someone's butt after months of sweating through Jujitsu classes. There will be a short bit of happiness.

Even after you've watched How To Be Single five times and you've discovered what it means to enjoy singlehood. After skiing down the black diamond course and mastering the art of thrift shopping and successfully rapping to "Lose Yourself" from that movie "8 Mile." Among the jelly donuts and job promotions and concert tickets, anxiety can still show itself.

At the end of the day when I curl up under my sheets, sometimes the weight is too much. Good grades, healthy friendships, sweet tea, and a backstage pass with Nick Jonas could never truly compensate for the unease that's burrowed inside of my heart.

There's only One who can do that and His name is Jesus.

I have to constantly remind myself of that.

He was speaking directly to each of us who struggle with anxiety when He said, "You are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed - indeed only One." Luke 10:41-42.

His love has the capability to swallow our anxieties whole. We can lay them at His feet and He will carry them on His shoulder in the shape of a cross.

He says, "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28.