The modern world promises happiness but breeds anxiety. Every liberty becomes a new pressure—consume more, achieve more, prove more. Yet Christ whispers what the culture cannot hear: striving isn’t thriving. Peace begins not in more control, but in surrender.

Control wears many disguises. Sometimes it is loud, demanding, unyielding. Other times, it creeps in quietly, hidden in tones of sarcasm or the whisper of a passive-aggressive remark. But the intent is the same: to bend people and circumstances toward our will.