I just finished reading Max Lucado's book Every Day Deserves a Chance for the second time. It was still just as encouraging as when I first read it. The way he teaches that we no longer have yesterday and to remember we have not yet made it to tomorrow - it really puts things in to perspective. "Don't heavy today with yesterday's regrets or acidize it with tomorrow's troubles." And as he asks, don't we tend to do so? I can't help but say YES. I find myself constantly worrying. I worry over everything! And then I worry because I worry. I know it is very unhealthy to worry. I also feel as if I tell God that He can't handle my situations. What I need to do is step back and realize is that He can handle them. I tend to wake up sabotaging my day, wiring it for disaster, lugging along yesterday's troubles, downloading tomorrow's struggles with remorse over the past, anxiety over the future and I don't seem to give my day a chance. Does anyone else feel the same? I have fear, I have anxiety, I panic! Most of these things are over things that haven't even happened and may never happen. It seems like ever since I became a mother I worry even more. And people tell me that is just part of being a mother, but does it have to be? Can't we just say that God is in control? Do we have to worry about what God already has under His command?
I pray Lord that I can stop my worrying and just hand it over to You for you know so much better than I could ever dream of. Help me Father to realize that every day does deserve a chance and that I need to stop going on weed hunts and start noticing the flowers along the way.
If we look long enough and hard enough we will find something to bellyache about, so quit looking!
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