Don't Worry, Be Happy

Remember the Bobby McFerrin song? It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: 

"Here is a little song I wrote 

You might want to sing it note for note 

Don't worry, be happy 

In every life we have some trouble 

When you worry you make it double 

Don't worry, be happy......"

I don't know about you but I've been making it double and doing a whole lot of worrying lately. 

Kid worries. 

Financial worries. 

Friend worries. 

Truth is, most things we worry about never even happen, right?

John Haggai says, "Worry is an intrusion into God's providence."

Martin Luther offers, "Pray, and let God worry."

"Worry is like praying for what you don't want to happen." is my new favorite going around.

And yet, I still worry.

In true Jesus fashion, my Bible reading today just so happened (wink, wink) to be Luke 12. 

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life..." v22

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" v25

"Do not be afraid, little flock..." v32

It makes it harder to worry when Jesus tells us not to. 

Does worrying benefit us at all? No extra hour for me.

And, did He just call us "little flock"? (Love that.)

Truth is, worry is a heart issue, and I need a new heart. Stat. 

"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

Come. 

Come to Jesus.

This is exactly what I am going to do.

Then I am going to sing with Bobby, you can too!  Sing with Bobby.

Hello happy, goodbye worry! 

Thanks for reading,
L.

I Thought This Very Beautiful...

Each morning

Night's curtain

Opens on a new day.

You are invited

To join the great opening.

Open your ears.

Open your heart.

Open your eyes

To the sacred path

You travel every day,

The path of the hours.

Greet the hours

With joyful awareness.

Greet the hours

With faithful presence.

Greet the hours

With a reverential bow.

Greet the hours

With a sacred pause.

Reverence each hour

As a small stepping stone

On your pilgrimage

Through the day.

Receive the gift

Of seven sacred pauses.

Practice waking up

Seven times a day.

O Pilgrim of the Hours by Macrina Wiederkehr

Seven Sacred Pauses at Amazon.com