I want the stress to go away

I was talking to a friend today and she said to me, "you don't need the stress.  You need to put every ounce of energy into healing and health."

I realized that there is a lot of stress in my life.  Not only am I dealing with cancer and chemo, but I'm dealing with a child with autism, another child who is a single parent who is working and going to school and another child who has decided to stay home with her three children and live on one income. These are normal stressors which I can deal with.

But it's the other stressors which take a toll on me.  It's problems other people have that somehow infiltrate me and my family.  It's the closing of the business we ran for 17 years.  It's the emotional demands placed on me which I cannot bear the weight of.

I have been digging into faith issues and trying to figure out where and why.  I wonder why people hurt my family?  What did we do to deserve the rejection and hurt?  I wonder why I cannot depend on very many people?  I wonder why I cannot rise above everything?  I wonder why I get sucked into doing things I do not want to do and people do not realize that their demands on me are too much.

I want the stress to go away!