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Worry

Matthew 6:25-34 Do Not Worry

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its

Today I will let my Higher Power handle my worry so that I can be free. I choose to be alive in this moment and not blocked by conversations that go over and over in my head. I will stop trying to figure everything out and will trust that I will get the right answers at the right time. - Ruth Fishel

Worry forms a box and keeps us stuck in it. When we stay with our fears and concerns they box us in, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. They become blocks to all our senses. They keep us from feeling anything else. We cannot hear, see, smell, touch or speak of anything positive. We are closed to joy and love. We are stuck.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. - Krishnamurti