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My sister gave me this years ago during a rough patch and I still love it. Probably one of my most treasured items. It makes for an apt macro study.
Many of us often worry about life. We want a safe place, security and if possible guarantee about almost everything.
Jesus gives us the His teachings below, c.f : Matthew 6.
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25 I tell you not to worry about your life. Don’t worry about having something to eat, drink, or wear. Isn’t life more than food or clothing? 26 Look at the birds in the sky! They don’t plant or harvest. They don’t even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren’t you worth more than birds?
27 Can worry make you live longer?[e] 28 Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don’t work hard to make their clothes. 29 But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth[f] wasn’t as well clothed as one of them. 30 God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith?
31 Don’t worry and ask yourselves, “Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to wear?” 32 Only people who don’t know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these. 33 But more than anything else, put God’s work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. Psalm 55:22
A man worried constantly about everything. Then one day his friends heard him whistling happily and looking noticeably relaxed. “What happened?” they asked him in astonishment.
He said, “I’m paying a man to do my worrying for me.”
“How much do you pay him?” they asked.
“Two thousand dollars a week,” he replied.
“Wow! How can you afford that?”
“I can’t,” he said, “but that’s his worry.”
While this humorous way to handle stress doesn’t work in real life, as God’s children we can turn our worries over to Someone who has everything perfectly under control even—especially—when we feel it is not.
The prophet Isaiah reminds us that God brings out the stars and calls them all by name (40:25-26). Because of “his great power and mighty strength” not one of them is missing (v. 26). And just as God knows the stars by name, He knows us individually and personally. We are each under His watchful care (v. 27).
If we are inclined to worry, we can turn that worry over to the Lord. He is never too weary or too tired to pay attention to us. He has all wisdom and all power, and He loves to use it on our behalf. The Holy One who directs the stars has His loving arms around us.
Lord, You know there are times when I get really scared. And I forget that You have promised that You will never leave me to face difficulty or loss alone. Help me to trust.
Worry ends where faith begins.
At World Market & found these little dolls that come in a tiny box. They're Guatemalan Worry People and you tell them your worries, put them under your pillow at night and when you wake up they would have taken your worries away...at least that's what the paper inside the box said.
A small page seemed in order today, so thought a quote would be appropriate content. I came across a variant of this quote yesterday, and I liked it, so here it is.
Blogged at: thehappypainter22.blogspot.com/2011/08/worry-pas.html
Framed. Aphorism print - this saying is true, but very hard to believe.
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more cases of Cholera, which has been moving from nearby PNG/Bougainville, have been reported in Choiseul and Western Provinces of Solomon Islands.
Austin, TX • October 2014
the only way to grow: play the cards you're dealt as if you know you're gonna win. also, take time to do something silly when life gets you down. doodle on an old envelope. watch a hilarious movie. you gotta take time to feel good amidst the storm.
*back posting a series of photos spanning a decade that represent my life in Texas: 2011-2021 ♥︎
"Battle of Lovers' Lane," "Non-Prudish No," and "Too Far" (apparently of great concern to the book's owner) are dealt with here...Datebook's Complete Guide to Dating, 1960
2/2/09 – i keep doing these tentacle things, i need to switch it up.
oh, and while i was uploading this, i remembered a talk my class got from the middle school counselor, oh so many years ago, about how if you are trying to encourage somebody, not to use negative words. well i have two hopefully encouraging stickers on here already that start with "don't," so maybe i need to switch it up. say stuff, like, "stay strong," or something? ha.
also, my art was featured at yay!everyday, today. thank you Chris. and thank you friends who look at this stuff. it means the world to me.
I got an order for a set just before the smoking ban came in over here so as I was pregnant at the time, I thought a set would come in handy for after the baby was born. These ones are blue lampwork and small pewter beads - I wnat to make a set of amber ones later
Don't worry, he wasn't stepping on me :D (though it looks like he was :()
Gogol Bordello live at the Roundhouse, Camden.
Park Avenue South at East 21st Street, New York City
Shot on Ilford XP2 Super 400 chromogenic black & white film using a Voigtlander Bessa R3A rangefinder with a 40mm f/1.4 Nokton lens