22 APRIL 2022 — POTENTIAL PROBLEMS

Last night I found myself worrying about how I would cope with something which may happen in the future, IT IS, OF COURSE, A VERY FUTILE EXERCISE unless one is able to do something at the present time to offset the problem.

I chose to ‘do’ worry despite my past experience that when a very difficult problem did occur to which I thought there could be no solution, magically someone appeared out of the blue who was able to help me solve the problem and it was far from being catastrophic as I had imagined it would be!!

SO, the same old question arises WHY WORRY when the worrying serves no other purpose than to make us upset, depressed and fearful? Why do we find it so difficult to trust in God, The Universe etc. and to know in our hearts that ALL WILL BE WELL IN THE END?

Worrying solves nothing. The only purpose it serves is to make us unhappy, fearful and depressed! SO, WHY WORRY?

I will end with the chorus from the Dire Straits song ‘Why Worry:

‘There should be laughter after pain?/There should be sunshine after rain/These things have always been the same/So why worry now?/Why worry now?’

PONDER POINTS: on reading this I felt …my thoughts on reading this were…