Worry

“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”

― Eckhart Tolle

I’ve been thinking a lot about worry as I’ve watched friends and family face difficult, worrisome trials in recent weeks.  Worry is not an emotion that serves us and only robs our todays, our nows, of our focus, energy, and strength. Worrying doesn’t make the future any better, especially the unavoidable.

In Matthew we read the Savior’s words:

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” (Matthew 6:34).

One of my grandmother’s favorite songs was “Consider the Lilies.”  It’s inspiration comes from the New Testament.

“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

“If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?” (Luke 12:27-28).  

Worrying about our trials will not help us through them, nor help us grow through them.  Our Father knows the trials that we are facing and exactly what we stand in need of; He will take care of us.