March 19, 2007: Luke 12:25-26

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?", Luke 12:25-26, NIV

These are just a couple of lines from my favorite passage of scripture.

As a "trying to recover Martha", worry is definitely something I continue to struggle with. While my heart knows that God is in control, my brain and body do not always go along with that knowledge. It is a daily battle for the "type A" person to let go... and it is a sin to continue to try and take the control out of God's hands. We cannot add a single hour to our lives here on earth, and I think if we could catch even the smallest glimpse of what waits for us, I do not believe we would want to. And yet, we worry... about thousands of earthly things. Why? And, how do we change that?

For me, as I pray daily, I have begun to mentally picture myself handing the things I worry about to Jesus. I think my human mind needs that visual representation to know that those things have been handed back to Him. I know that there are things that I continue to cling to, and I ask for forgiveness for that. And I am so thankful that God's grace includes patience as I continue to work on letting go of them.