Nov 13 2008
On Worrying
“Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear all three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” -Edward Everett Hale
We all know the kind of person who responds to life in this way. Sometimes it is us. But somehow, when it is laid out clearly before us in a quote like this one by Hale, we realize the burden and unrealistic nature of bearing “more than one kind of trouble at a time.”
Sometimes the worry or concern of the moment is enough to make us feel like we are buried, almost suffocating. Worrying about the troubles of the past bears no fruit. It is in the past. And lastly, why bear the troubles of a day to come. To quote scripture, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:25-27 and verse 34)
