Enough of being a worry bird..

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it gets you no where.

Yesterday when the guest speaker came to pray for you. "Don't worry, God's teaching you to trust Him. Do you know that when you worry, you are growing shorter. (Here's when I was trying hard to hide a giggle)Then he went on to say how when we worry, there's a disk or something that affects our spine... Boy was I glad he didn't say, when you worry, you'll grow fat. And he continued to say, dun worry God will provide for you, don't worry about a boyfriend or a husband. Heh, God provided for that already yeah :)

This has been an area where I'm still a learning. I'm so tempted to list down the many areas of my list that warrants me the "right" to worry. Work situation, family, wedding plans, home renovation, ministry, and even silly things like weight, looks, blah blah. And even though I know better than to let these seemingly trival matters get a hold of me, I can't seem to get them out of my mind and just get so absorbed in them. But it's time to live a life that ie beyond just myself. I need an expansion, and no thank you to side way expansion. But to live a bigger life, an expanded life.

And so worry bird no more.. After all doesn't it say in Matthew 6:25-27

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

Don't worry, be happy..

Yipe off to church camp today. Been 3, 4 years? Since I last went for church camp. Feeling excited about it. Time to just be in the presence of God, being soaked in the Word, fellowship, knowing more pple, like my roomie Hazel. Will be taking this retreat to sort out some thoughts for ministry, work, plans for 2006. Much to seek directions for.