Worry

Bill is a walking time bomb. Both of his carotid veins are 98% blocked. Do we have surgery or not? If he doesn't have the surgery, the chances are high that he will have a stroke one day, but there is also danger in the surgery. So we are trying to take it one day at a time.

I have to remind myself it is futile and actually wasteful to lose time and even jeopardize my health by constant worrying. By worrying about problems , you can feel like you're just going around in circles and getting nowhere. Moreover, you are courting hypertension, ulcers,
despondency and even bring on a stroke or a heart attack. Worry & anxiety are synonymous.

Here is what one wise man wrote: "It is not the care of today, but the cares of tomorrow that
weight a person down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For tomorrow, we are told to trust. It is not ours yet."

Ben Franklin once said: "Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may happen. Keep in the sunlight."

We borrow trouble when we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers or trials. On the other hand the individual who does not allow the thousand little worries of life to embitter them has full faith in God to put those worries to rest.

"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" Matt. 6:27

"Therefor do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the days own trouble be sufficient for the day. " Matt. 6:34

We should all remember that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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