“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day” (Mt. 6:34).
Worry never climbed a hill. Worry never paid a bill. Worry never dried a tear. Worry never colored fear.
A pastor in Texas has written about a troubling situation that arose while he was vacationing on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea:
We had to take an eight-hour ferryboat ride through choppy waters to get there. The moment we set foot on the dock, though, we noticed a very strange sight. Everywhere we looked, there were Greek men nervously fingering strings of beads — worry beads, they called them. There were old men fingering worry beads, middle-aged men fumbling with worry beads, and young men fidgeting with their worry beads. We saw them on the coast and we saw them as we moved farther into the interior of the island
— worry beads were everywhere! The island was…
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