Thursday, November 12, 2009

Win over Worry

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow. ~Robert Jones Burdette

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown
Question from Sapphire: so was it worth the worry?

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. ~John Lubbock

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. ~Robert Eliot

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is to small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ~Author Unknown

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. ~Philip Gulley

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown

And from the Book of books - Matthew 6: 25 - 33 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?

And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.

Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?

Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

When you win over worry, notice I didn't say "if" because YOU can, you'll be walking on water! God bless

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