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March 24, 2025 · 45:16 · 5 min

Anxiety is rooted in 'too much': 50 pharaohs

The hosts land the thesis: anxiety is rooted in things being outside their borders, and almost always in there being too much of something to control. A lack of control could be lack of faith in yourself, others, or God — but either way, people keep adding pharaohs until they have fifty, and God is not going to manage them all; he asks them to stop taking on so much. Paul's 'work with your hands' is read as the same instruction Adam got in the garden, set against a culture that figured out how not to have to do that.

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