What is there to worry about? That was the question that entered my mind as I went into prayer this morning. The answer is – the things to worry about are infinite. Think about it: how many hundreds, nay thousands of things can I worry about in my personal life. I just had a physical and the doctor called back and said, “Everything is fine.” She said the word fine in a higher tone than she ended it with, which prepared me for the next word, “but…” One more thing to worry about.

There is my family life. My wife works hard and has important decisions to make each day at work and in her personal life. I have two boys in college, enough said! My dog has a tumor. My mother has Alzheimer’s and I see my dad looking so tired in trying to take care of her.

Luckily I can come to the office each morning for refuge, after all, there’s nothing to worry about when it comes to ministry!

I also pondered other ways to catagorize worry: short term and long term. Or, past, present and future worries.

The world of worry is a never-ending world.

Then Jesus says in Matthew 6 – “Do not worry.” Is that possible?

It may sound strange, but walking through the world of worry actually helped me. Looking at all the things I can worry about brought me to the conclusion that even if I dispense of the “silly” worries and focus only on the legitimate ones, there is still enough there to kill me. Yes, worry is that big and that powerful.

This realization led me to this conclusion: either I will die in the world of worry, or I have to get out of it.

Jesus offers as his suggestion: “Let it go,” And you know what? He’s right (imagine that!). Jesus led me down the valley of the shadow of worry and opened my eyes to the end result of living in worry. I don’t want to life there and I don’t want to die there. So I’m choosing to take Jesus’ words to heart. I’m going to try not to worry about things anymore and instead take them to God and trust. I’m not sure how well I’m going to do at this, for the two worlds are intertwined in my life.

What is there to worry about? Jesus led me down an interesting road this morning. Instead of saying, “There’s nothing to worry about,” he said, “There’s too much to worry about, so let it go.” I like that. And I can imagine how beautiful that world could be. I hope I can do it.

God bless, Dan