Reading: Matthew 6:25-34
“Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore, do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed, your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Reflection One of the things I don’t do well is living in the present moment. So often, I am either rehashing past experiences in my mind or I am worrying about the future. I’m remembering “the good old days” or I’m planning ahead. I’m not enjoy what is happening RIGHT NOW. I think God wants us to enjoy today and be in the present. You may have heard the old saying, “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift from God. That is why it is called the present.” Kids often live for the moment. They don’t worry about what is to come or what happened. They have limited sense of time. Maybe if we approach life in a childlike way, everyday can be a new adventure given to us by God. We can’t change the past. We don’t have to fear the future. Jesus died and rose from the dead so our sins would be forgiven, and we’d have eternal life. As chosen children of God, our future is secure. I’m going to try to remember the words of Psalm 118:24 and work on living in the now. “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” --Chad Hershberger Reading Instead of a prayer today, reflect on these words from Paul Bowle’s The Sheltering Sky: “…because we don’t know (when we will die), we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain amount of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some after that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the moon rise? Perhaps twenty? And yet is seems limitless.”
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