So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. -Matthew 6:34 (NLT)
If you think about it, we can apply this same principal to dwelling on our mistakes from yesterday. It won't change anything to obsess over those mistakes. Make amends and move on.
That's what I'll be doing today! Yesterday, I discovered that my cyber schooling oldest son had some very poor grades going on in several subject areas. And while I'm not going to just pretend they don't exist because yesterday is in our past, I am going to let go of the blame I laid on myself over it and help him through it today. Today will be better. Today is a gift and we are going to treat it as such!
Here's my challenge for you and me today: Stop worrying about yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, think only of today and how you can best serve God today.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Crazy Worried
Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens
when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. -Philippians 4:5-7
I'm worried today. A crazy kind of worried. There's no other way to describe it. You see, last Sunday, I got a text from one of my best friends telling me that she was at the hospital and they'd found a pulminary embolism. For those who don't know, that's a blood clot in her lung, which is a very serious condition that I've been told they often find to be a person's cause of death. She was extremely blessed that it was found. God was obviously watching over her.
The complicating factor in this case though, is that she is currently 38 weeks pregnant. And this is her fifth child, a dramatic daughter. That limits what they can do with her for the embolism AND how her delivery can go once she's in labor.
Because of all that goes along with a pregnant woman with a pulminary embolism, she will be induced today. I've been praying like a mad woman begging for comfort and health and strength and anything else I can think of on her behalf. And still I am worried.
But God has given me the verse from the top of this post to hang on to. I know, without any shred of a doubt, that he loves my friend even more than I do. I know that he is there with her even now, offering his strength and his comfort for her to lean in to.
So, do me a favor, when you're worried today, offer your worries up to God. Allow him the chance to take on your burden. You won't be sorry!
when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. -Philippians 4:5-7
I'm worried today. A crazy kind of worried. There's no other way to describe it. You see, last Sunday, I got a text from one of my best friends telling me that she was at the hospital and they'd found a pulminary embolism. For those who don't know, that's a blood clot in her lung, which is a very serious condition that I've been told they often find to be a person's cause of death. She was extremely blessed that it was found. God was obviously watching over her.
The complicating factor in this case though, is that she is currently 38 weeks pregnant. And this is her fifth child, a dramatic daughter. That limits what they can do with her for the embolism AND how her delivery can go once she's in labor.
Because of all that goes along with a pregnant woman with a pulminary embolism, she will be induced today. I've been praying like a mad woman begging for comfort and health and strength and anything else I can think of on her behalf. And still I am worried.
But God has given me the verse from the top of this post to hang on to. I know, without any shred of a doubt, that he loves my friend even more than I do. I know that he is there with her even now, offering his strength and his comfort for her to lean in to.
So, do me a favor, when you're worried today, offer your worries up to God. Allow him the chance to take on your burden. You won't be sorry!
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