How do we deal with stress and anxiety during FLOOD?

What do you do when you're stressed and tensed? If you asked the smokers , they'll surely reason that cigarettes (or pipes and dominican cigars even) bring down the level of irritability, anxiety and stress. They believe smoking helps to relieve tension and improve the mood.

I don't smoke neither my hubby so you won't see us smoking when we're under pressure. The recent flood that happened in the city is one of the circumstances that is out of our control, we felt stress. Our safety was threatened at that time, we got anxious. How do we cope with that as Christians?

We PRAY. The Bible recommends taking everything to God in prayer. We pray that the water won't continue to rise and submerging our 2nd floor. We pray for our safety and for all the people in Hatyai City. This verse in Philippians offers the comforting promise . Our minds were protected by a peace that goes beyond our ability to understand.

Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by
prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the
peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus. (NIV)

After praying we started praising and the stress and anxiety just seems to go away. Praise and worship took our minds and thoughts off of ourselves, off our problems, and refocus them on God. As we begin to praise and worship God, suddenly our problems seem small in light of the largeness of God.

How about you? How do you deal with stress in life?