Relevant

This past Sunday I was at Mass and as my son was the Altar Boy I was there very early.  I was thinking of so many things and friends and family - all the usual thoughts and prayers that we reflect upon so often.

When the mass arrived at the reading of the Gospel, I was so thrilled to hear one of my all time favorite passages being read!

I am still bewildered that this passage from the Gospel of Matthew still holds such relevance and truth to our current lives so many years after it was written.

If you didn't know this message came directly from the Bible you would think it came directly from the lips of Dale Carnegie himself!

For me it is impossible to read this passage and not be immediately comforted and gain a sense of peace from the logic and insight it lends to all of us as we go through the ridiculous gyrations and trials in our daily existence!

Perhaps it will do the same for any of you struggling with worry, fear or anxiety today!

It is my sincere hope that it does!

Stay Strong!

"This too shall pass" is also a promise and a fact!!

PS - Happy Birthday Tim OT and Barry K!!!  :)

Matthew 6:25-34

Do Not Worry

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 

26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 

30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 

31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 

33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.