“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” — 1 Peter 5:7

There’s a quiet heaviness that settles on the heart when worry takes root. It doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it lingers in the background like a low hum you can’t quite turn off. And sometimes it hits like a wave you never saw coming.

Worry is universal. It touches every age, every season, every personality. Yet Scripture invites us into a truth that feels almost too good to be real: you were never meant to carry your anxieties alone.

Peter writes, “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” It’s a simple sentence, but it carries the weight of heaven behind it.

The word “cast” in the original Greek means to throw with force, to hurl something off your shoulders and onto someone stronger. It’s not a gentle placing. It’s not a polite handing over. It’s a release — a surrender — a letting go.

And why? Because He cares for you.

Not in a distant, theological way. Not in a “God cares about humanity in general” way. But in a deeply personal, attentive, compassionate way.

He cares about the things that keep you awake at night. He cares about the fears you don’t say out loud. He cares about the pressure you feel to hold everything together. He cares about the future you can’t predict. He cares about the burdens you’ve carried so long they feel like part of you.

Worry often grows from the belief that everything depends on us. Peace grows from the truth that everything rests in Him.

This week, God is inviting you to loosen your grip. To stop rehearsing the “what ifs.” To stop carrying the weight of outcomes you cannot control. To stop believing the lie that you are alone in your struggle.

You are not alone. You are not forgotten. You are not unseen.

The God who formed galaxies is the same God who bends low to lift your burdens.

So here’s your challenge for Week 1:

Reflection Practice

Take one worry — just one — and write it down. Then pray this simple prayer:

“Lord, I cast this anxiety on You. Not because I am strong, but because You care for me.”

Say it slowly. Say it honestly. Say it as many times as you need.

Let this be the week you begin to release what was never meant to be yours to carry.

God cares for you — more than you know, more than you feel, more than you can imagine. And that truth is the foundation of peace.