25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34
i really like this passage. :)my natural response to most things is internalizing all of my thoughts and essentially just running through scenario after scenario of things i either could have said/done better or those that are upcoming. but all that brain gunk does no one any good.
sometimes it seems like we all tend to exaggerate the weight of certain situations.
but no one's going to die if they fail a final.
the sun isn't going to crash into the earth if you forget an assignment.
bad grades don't mean that God's love for you has reached an end.
and yet it's so easy for us to act like all of that is inevitable.
We need to take some time in the next couple weeks and be a breath of fresh air to all of our stressed out friends. be a strong support when they need it, and be encouraging. :)
avoid getting sucked into that cyclone of pointless worrying. put everything in God's hands. take a couple of minutes every once in a while to remind ourselves that even as things might not be going our way with projects due every day and finals swiftly approaching, God still loves you. and He loves each one of the other high-anxiety kids on campus. take some time to get out of your head, away from the "what if I this"s and "what if I that"s and share some of that Great Love. :)
praying for you, amigos.
:D
-spencer-
