Worry: give way to anxiety or unease; allow one’s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles
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“Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.”
Abraham Hicks
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control
over life and its circumstances than you actually do.”
June Hunt
Worry implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough,
or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
Francis Chan
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“Do not doubt, do not worry, do not be anxious.” Easy to say, hard to do.
Jesus addressed worry.
“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?
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?
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
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?
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:25-33 NIV
So what do we do with our anxiety and worry? Some thoughts on that tomorrow.