- Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
To me, worry is one of the least useful emotions. It frustrates me no end because I claim to have a lot of faith in God but then seem to be only too happy to worry. How can I say I have faith and worry at the same time. I've noticed that worry doesn't really contribute much. I'd say fear does, but not worry. Fear keeps me safe but I am still trying to figure out what worry helps me with. When I worry, I constantly go over things in my head on what could be and of course the limit to the possibilities are only if I decide to set them. When my child steps out, I worry about the kind of influence the other people have on him. When he says he's not hungry, I worry about the disease that he could end up with because of the lack of some mineral or vitamin which thanks to the internet, I am acutely aware of. When he innocently asks a question about whether you need two parents to have a baby, I wonder who he has been talking to and what he has heard. I read all the road to "success" stories and worry if I'm over protecting or under protecting my child or whether I am encouraging or nagging, all depending on the latest trend of books I am reading. I worry when I lose weight because I wonder if its because of some kind of disease and I worry when I gain because of the disease that could come with being over-weight. If by chance I happen to stay at the same weight I fret over how my "controlled" diet doesn't help and my back problems are going to get worse.
My rant about worry makes me realize how pointless it is. I wish I could get beyond the worry to just enjoying life. I've tried a lot of things to get beyond the worry part of my thoughts. The one thing that has helped me tremendously is accepting who I am and accepting the people around me for what they are. We are not perfect but for us who try to attain perfectionism and failing to do so and also in our attempt, we try to impose it on others. We need to live and let live. After all worrying doesn't solve anything but the worrier can definitely make the life of people around them miserable.
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its
sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
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