Good morning…
Yesterday, our Thursday class met for our first monthly gathering of the summer. We celebrated a special seventieth birthday, with a homemade cake and candles, balloons and flowers, cards and gifts. We caught up on our stories. Stories of babies born and concerns for our aging parents. Stories of painful health issues and the frustration of insurance postponing a much needed surgery. Stories of thriving beyond divorce and gracefully living on after a beloved husband has died. Stories of waiting on God’s timing and the blessing of a three year old child waking his mom on an ordinary day, excitedly exclaiming, “I WOKE UP!” As a group, we cherished the privilege of sharing in the joys and challenges of everyday life.
Together, we also read aloud this May 11th excerpt from Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling.
Worries, we all have them. It is wise to realize that most of the situations that entangle our minds are not today’s concerns, they are worries we have borrowed from tomorrow. Might we live a life of interactive faith, allowing God to lift the problem out of today to deposit it in the future, where the ultimate resolution is veiled from our eyes? In the place of our incessant worry, God gives us his peace, a powerful peace which flows freely from his presence in the present moment.
Then one woman read to us a quote from Corrie Ten Boom, a quote that spoke to us in surround sound, a quote that solidified God’s teaching for the day.
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
God’s own words added the exclamation point we needed. So do not worry about tomorrow. Let tomorrow worry about itself. Living faithfully is a large enough task for today (Matthew 6:34, VOICE).
…Sue…
