Upsetting changes and upheavals

I came back from vacation well rested, only to find that things changed radically while I was gone. It was hard that first week to find my footing. You tell yourself that things will settle down. You try to comfort the people around you. It doesn't work. You drift, dreaming of better days. When will they happen, you ask. You wonder if the upheavals in your personal life are just a reflection of the upsetting changes that are happening all around you. You have to stop. Focus on one thing. Breathe and look around you. Then the upheavals in your life will start to make sense

I can tell my parents are upset. They are understandably worried about what you know who will do next. Will they have their Social Security or will you know who take it away from them? It's all too much to handle. Yes, I'm understandably upset too. I don't want to be out on the street either, as far too many of my fellow citizens are. I see them daily as I walk the streets of the city. Their faces reflect the pain those changes have inflicted on them. I pray daily not to be like them. I don't know if I would be able to handle that big of an upheaval.

I have to remember that the Lord is in control, otherwise I will go completely insane with worry and fear. I need to remember that the future is in God's hands, not in you know who's hands.