Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Prayer is discovering God’s care at hand.
Instead of wasting valuable mental time with worry, pray. Get humble.
Trust the wisdom of the one Mind to lead you aright.
As you listen to divine Mind rather than mortal mind, ideas come and solutions appear.
Trust God more, and live worry free.
Worry is a way of you saying you have the answer.
Trusting is a strong statement that Gos has the answer!
That’s right. Worry keeps us searching and searching, until we are exhausted. The sooner we drop the worry and pray, God’s solution is revealed.
John,
I love this. I would slightly revise it to say “Worry is thinking you have to come up with the answer. Trusting is a strong statement God already has the answer.”
Your old friend, Jeff Tinkham
Jeff I appreciate your fine tuning..
Thank you Evan & John!! Very helpful.
Dear Evan, How did you know I needed to hear that? Thank you for shifting my gears.
So encouraging. Thanks.
Thank you very much Evan for this statement:”
Instead of wasting valuable mental time with worry, pray. Get humble”. How true it is each passing day in my human condition. Fee weeks ago I got involved in a car accident, I thank God for the Eternal force and protection.
However, for a few days, I was worried about how I was going to go around without a car. I realized we have decent bus transportation where I live. So I started to study the maps and roads where I needed to go. Soon I found it very pleasant to be on the bus and let the driver take me where I needed.
But on top I started to connect with people and places I would never exposed with my car. We can call it “adventure “, yes it is a blessing, fun and rewarding to travel without a car, We can see and discover things and new people you will never experience in a car. I’m grateful to God to have this opportunity
That becomes a blessing.
Wow, that is great!
Thanks Pp for that great testimony. I am not a driver myself and I relate to what you said about the adventure and opportunities that come along with using public transportation. You have a Good, God attitude.
Thank you very much Evan for this statement:”
Instead of wasting valuable mental time with worry, pray. Get humble Instead of wasting valuable mental time with worry, pray. Get humble. ”. How true it is each passing day in my human condition. Fee weeks ago I got involved in a car accident, I thank God for the Eternal force and protection.
However, for a few days, I was worried about how I was going to go around without a car. I realized we have decent bus transportation where I live. So I started to study the maps and roads where I needed to go. Soon I found it very pleasant to be on the bus and let the driver take me where I needed.
But on top I started to connect with people and places I would never exposed with my car. We can call it “adventure “, yes it is a blessing, fun and rewarding to travel without a car, We can see and discover things and new people you will never experience in a car. I’m grateful to God to have this opportunity
That becomes a blessing.
Prayer is discovering God’s help at hand.
Love this!❣️
Stop worrrying and start to …
Worship spiritually
Observe beauty
Rebuke error
Reflect health
Yield to God
Love these! 🙂
Thank you Mark/Illinois. I love how you use the words to bring a healing idea out. Great. And thank you all and Evan for your postings. A very important directive. Listening is the only way to hear.
Worry is not trusting God and it seems to block Truth for awhile, but all things work together for good to those who love God!
And I know we all love God!
Worry? Why pray?
Pray? Why worry?
Hi Noble Muse, I remember hearing that in a self help group many years ago, “If you pray, why worry? If you worry, why pray?” I think now though that if we do catch ourselves worrying, that is a red flag that it’s time to immediately start praying and drop the mortal mind solution (worry and fret and try to figure it out ourselves).
As Evan so rightly says, we need to get humble, pray, and stop wasting valuable mental time and energy where it will do no good at all.
Thank you prayers: The antidote to worry
“Humility: Pausing for the Divine” Experience the strength and power of humility by humbly letting the Divine take the lead in your daily life. By Janet Clements. From the May 21, 2012 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/2012/5/114-21/humility-pausing-for-the-divine
(*Sorry, this is not a shareable copy, so it may/may not open completely for those without a subscription. Maybe someone would be interested in attaching a shareable copy for all to read.)
I do have a pdf version of the article below:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62695ab8d9b2bd4b35caf7ec/t/62758ed108b0fc4d4552b577/1651871442317/Humility-+Pausing+for+the+Divine+5.21.12.pdf
Thank you, Evan, for pointing out humility is the key to overcoming worry. And J, that article was very moving and a helpful further explanation of what being humble looks like and how to live it. Many thanks for all the helpful comments today.
Thank you, J. Here is a shareable link:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2dffxcvsrsq?s=copylink
Great article! Thank you Cheryl & J
Thank you Cheryl! So appreciate your kindness in providing a shareable link.
Clearly, it’s the thing to do! Thanks much.
One definition of worry I’ve seen is “Ingratitude in advance”.
When I hadn’t fallen asleep because I was worrying at 4:30 this morning I looked at email and found this. It suggests that anytime we are worrying about situations we can change thought immediately to affirming truths about what we are worrying about. If we catch ourselves worrying it’s an alert to immediately switch thought to praying which produces more good. This is really helpful. We can’t do both simultaneously: worry and pray so choose prayer instead. Any time spent worrying can better be spent praying – this is so practicual and useful. And the worrying is a wake-up call that it’s time to pray instead. Thanks for this!
Thank you Evan! And thank you John!
Love this!! Thank you Evan!
Dear Evan, as others have said, this is really and truly EXACTLY what I needed today. I returned home late last night to find my house flooded. And I began the human steps of figuring out what to do… But then I paused, and I took time to pray and listen.
In the shortest amount of time imaginable, I have an entire crew of workers here doing the remediation !
It took very little “human effort” on my part- I just see Love in action!
And this is the way it is. This is really God’s Law.
I do feel sincerely humble. And that is a good thing.!
The Janet Clements article shared by our ever-alert & resourceful J, is profound and wonderful.
What a blessing we have. It is a beautiful day! God‘s day..
Love to all
Annie – that’s a great example of the power of prayer instead of worry. Getting a bunch of workers in a short time is amazing today. It demonstrates what prayer alone can do. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing that story Annie, I can just feel your Joy jumping off the words on the page as you describe your sense of humility and deep knowing that Love in Action is the way it is and, “this is really God’s Law.”
Dear Annie,
It sounds like you have (like in Mrs. Eddy’s Footsteps of Truth) in
S&H page 201, … been having “truth through flood-tides of Love”
sweep through your true home and with “all things [becoming]
new”. Lovely how thoughts on this page has a “superabundance of
being [is] on the side of God, Good”. You are indeed, blessed and loved
in God’s Loving arms of comfort … in your “physical” home, but most
of all, your Spiritual home.
So happy to hear Annie! Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts.
Excellent and needed post from Evan. Excellent article by Janet Clements, thank you for linking. I have loved many of her articles.