Worrying Again!

Last night, while reading through the Screwtape Letters, we read the following: "There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy [God]. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them" (letter 6). This really struck me (and everyone else; we spent a while talking about worrying), I think because I had experienced this earlier in the day yesterday, and even skirted around the thought that worrying separates you from God, although I don't think I ever verbalized it. I was just really worried yesterday that I would be late for work; I spent most of the morning worrying about it, rather obsessively (for no good reason, I might add; I had plenty of time to get to work, and I knew it, but for some reason I just could not stop worrying about it). And it really stopped me from praying. I normally pray on the way to work, but yesterday I just couldn't because of how worried I was. It really did get between me and God.