Nothing should contaminate or spoil the mind. Anxiety and worry will do that. It’s not easy to deal with that. It is important that it’s dealt with. The invitation is made to communicate with God in various ways and be clear in what ails you and trust Him. Express it clearly. Know that He cares. […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Make Your Requests KnownCircumstances have a great way of exposing what we rely on. Someone loses their job, the household can be beset by worries because of the dependence on the income from the job. Someone gets ill, the household can be beset by worries because of the dependence on the sick individual. These conditions of worry, though, […]
Read More King Jesus Says – Do Not WorryIt’s as though he didn’t get it. The bills were huge. His wife had just made another unnecessary purchase. The children had pressing needs and now the car had broken down and that would require some monies to fix as well. That would have sent his wife into a tailspin of fretting. He just appeared […]
Read More No Need To WorryThere is a flow with the teaching. Get this flow. When we know who the blessed are, we realise that righteousness is a matter of the heart. As that is the case our spiritual practices are expressions of our commitment to God alone – not for public approval. These in themselves mark out clearly that […]
Read More Treasure Options: It’s A Trust IssueThey look to be prospering. They get high positions and wield the power like they are to rule forever. The poor and needy look to be the first to suffer. It’s unfair. It’s not right. It’s upsetting. It’s aggravating. No wonder we are prone to fret, get anxious, worry and that leads to taking matters […]
Read More Psalm 37 – Don’t Worry About A ThingAnxiety is something very easy to get. It’s like catching the flu. You’re alright one minute, then the next someone says something to you and all of a sudden, even if on the surface you appear in control, underneath, things are not so certain. I am rather blessed in having the parents I’ve got. My […]
Read More Anxiety, Responsibility And My ParentsYou must be choking. No I’m not suggesting that your name is Venus Williams in the first round of Wimbledon this year. (Nice reference to latest events, eh?) I am referring to being choked by the cares of this life. You might recall the Parable of the Sower and Jesus doing us the favour of […]
Read More News and the Cares of this LifeIt is really intriguing how we can let things eat away at us. The fret, the worry, the anxiety, the not knowing, the needing to know, the possibilities, the what if’s, the if only’s. We can become slaves to these and a great deal of time and energy is wasted on things that resolve nothing. […]
Read More Wisdom To Know The DifferenceLast time out I was sharing about how my Dad was encouraging me again to not worry. I also spent some time looking at the debilitating effects of worry both in the physical and worse in the spiritual. So how to overcome worrying? Well first thing is to address the fact that the opposite to […]
Read More Why Worry – Part TwoThe other day I had a phone conversation with my Dad. Usually telephone conversations with my Dad are known for their brevity. My Dad isn’t given to much speech, and to be honest, hard though it may be to believe, neither am I. If I don’t have to talk, I won’t. I enjoy the quiet […]
Read More Why Worry – Part One
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