As far back as I can remember, anxiety has been my...

As far back as I can remember, anxiety has been my close companion, having long ago taken up residence in the small, second-floor bedroom of the house that is my body. Sometimes my anxiety takes long naps. Sometimes it throws parties. But I don’t imagine it will ever tire of this neighborhood and move out for good.

Lauren Winner, Still

Winner gets a lot of flak for writing so many memoirs at such a young age, and I understand that criticism. But she writes some of the best Christian meditations on mental illness and anxiety that I’ve seen, so when I’m in the right mood I can handle the rest of what she says for glimmers of truth like this one.