“The world is beginning to reveal its beauty which for a long time was obscured by my worrying over my troubles.” (ODAT, 15 February)
Even if the world does go to the hell in a handcart, the material world is only a fragment of reality.
Bearing that in mind, which significantly reduces the stakes:
My job is to be happy, joyous, and free, which is God’s will for me.
To worry is a defect; the only permissible worry is that one worries.
That’s the one thing that must be gotten rid of.
Worry is a straightforward denial of the providence of God.
It says: God’s reassurances mean nothing.
Worry is really hubris. It’s ‘knowing better’ when I don’t know better at all.
You know who knows better?
God knows better!
And God says it’s all alright, so it is.