Can one person do it all?
Sometimes I feel like there is so much going on in my life that I can't keep up. That if I even try to look at my calendar I'll start spinning wildly out of control. Actually, I know for a fact that if I looked at my calendar all the time during the day I would go crazy...because I call that day last Thursday.I sat down and looked at not only one day, but the next two weeks. Within about 0.02 seconds my heart started racing, I got cold/sweaty hands, and broke out into a cold sweat.
I just laid on the bed and breathed for a few minutes and tried to calm down while a barrage of thoughts came to mind. In the midst of it all, I called a good friend and told her what all was blazing thru my mind and after finally laughing about some things, she started to tell me something that was immediately familiar.
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew 6:25-34
Well there it is folks. The whole reason of this post. I worried over my life. And who better to trust that with than the Lord? He created it all, and continues to create amazing things, and give us amazing opportunities. "Tomorrow is anxious of itself." I mean, I can't even control what is going to happen within the next minute what makes think that I can even try to get a grip on the next two weeks? Not gonna happen.
It might be a long verse, but it's worth at least paraphrasing for memory.
Live Today.
Sometimes I feel like there is so much going on in my life that I can't keep up. That if I even try to look at my calendar I'll start spinning wildly out of control. Actually, I know for a fact that if I looked at my calendar all the time during the day I would go crazy...because I call that day last Thursday.I sat down and looked at not only one day, but the next two weeks. Within about 0.02 seconds my heart started racing, I got cold/sweaty hands, and broke out into a cold sweat.
I just laid on the bed and breathed for a few minutes and tried to calm down while a barrage of thoughts came to mind. In the midst of it all, I called a good friend and told her what all was blazing thru my mind and after finally laughing about some things, she started to tell me something that was immediately familiar.
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew 6:25-34
Well there it is folks. The whole reason of this post. I worried over my life. And who better to trust that with than the Lord? He created it all, and continues to create amazing things, and give us amazing opportunities. "Tomorrow is anxious of itself." I mean, I can't even control what is going to happen within the next minute what makes think that I can even try to get a grip on the next two weeks? Not gonna happen.
It might be a long verse, but it's worth at least paraphrasing for memory.
Live Today.
I love you.
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