Do Not Worry

Bad news is coming at us all the time these days. It's enough to make you want to crawl under the covers and not come out until everything's better. How is it some people can seem so carefree about it all? How come they're not stressed out and worried about what's going to happen?

I have a theory. I think some of them are so busy living today, they don't have time to fret about tomorrow. They've discovered that everyday has the potential to be the best or worst day of their life, and if they spend it worrying about tomorrow...well, let's just say it probably won't be their best day.

"But I can't help it," I've heard people say. "I'm just wired that way." I suppose that could be true, but I suppose that means transformation is impossible. Alcoholics will just drink themselves to death, overeaters will die of obesity and worriers will fill each day with worries about tomorrow.

Then again, maybe there's something to be said for opening ourselves up to God's grace and love. If practice makes perfect, we could choose to practice the art of living today, and when tomorrow's worries come, we can set them on the shelf like that 'one little drink' or that extra piece of pie.

Addictions are like that, they convince us there's no way we can live without them. "An addiction," someone once said, "is anything we use to fill that empty place inside of us that belongs to God alone." May you be so full of God, you have no space for worry...or any other addiction.