Worrying is dumb

Hello there Cyberspace,

Again, not much going on for me right now, just hanging out at Brad’s waiting to move to New Hampshire. Just a week to go! I’m looking forward to moving up even more since I was able to reconnect with a few of the youth group members of the group I led in New Hampshire. I need to start looking for a church in the Manchester area, any suggestions?

I’m hoping to be able to impart some big things that God is teaching me at some point, but when you’re in a holding pattern, like I am, I just don’t feel that there’s a lot of new stuff popping up in my life for God to use to teach me with. Not that that’s a bad thing at all, I am definitely able to accept and be very happy that there aren’t big crises that are going on in my life right now, and I can thank God for that!

There are a couple of things that I have thought a bit more about since I’ve been raising my own support…I surprised myself about worrying about the future the other day. Financially, I’m in an ok shape for the next couple of months, but I was thinking ahead to the point after that, the point where my bank account will (might) run out and I might not be able to pay my bills. I believe in planning, but I don’t believe in worrying too much about the future, God has it in His hands, but I found my planning turning into worrying, not a good thing. Fortunately, I was reminded of this verse:

“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 important than food, and the body more important 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies 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, O 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. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

I need to stop worrying, so I did. Thank you Jesus!
Have a great day!