The Bible names anxiety and a crushed spirit plainly. Proverbs says “anxiety weighs down the heart” (Proverbs 12:25) and asks who can bear “a crushed spirit” (Proverbs 18:14), and Jesus names worry in Martha (Luke 10:41) and “the anxieties of life” in his hearers (Luke 21:34). Moses asked God to kill him (Numbers 11:14-15), Jeremiah wished he had never been born (Jeremiah 20:18), and Jesus told three disciples in Gethsemane that his soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point…
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