Things That I'm Afraid Of

Josh Wilson names anxiety and depression by their clinical terms rather than euphemism — "I get so overcome with anxiety, like there's an enemy living inside of me" and later "when my depression is affecting every ounce of me, I can get the medication and the counseling" — explicitly making room for treatment rather than positioning faith as a replacement for it.

"Still, I can hear the fear calling out to me, and I don't feel brave, but I don't have to be" separates courage from feeling brave, arguing the two aren't the same requirement. Psalm 23's valley of the shadow of death gets rewritten as present tense and personal — "I walked through the valley of shadows, and it scared me half to death" — admitting real fear inside a psalm often quoted for its calm.

"You prepare a table for me right in front of my worst enemies" keeps the same psalm's image but makes the enemies specific fears and demons rather than literal opposition. The title's closing turn — "the things that I'm afraid of are afraid of You" — doesn't claim the fears disappear, only that they answer to a higher authority than the one currently feeling them.