Loans * Retirement * Las Vegas * Relationships

What do all of these things have to do with each other?  Plenty.  Add to the mix "mortgages and credit card bills",  "health", and "job security",  you have the items that occupy over 90% of an adults conscience thoughts.  An most of these items have negative connotations.  

Anxiety comes about because of problems, worries, or seemingly injustices.  Of all the advice I have ever received on this topic, none has served me as well as these few words:   “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 

 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?   “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble".  Ahem .  This is the answer for anyone who is open to the truth. 

"Garbage in, Garbage out."  I do not like this cliche, but I keep it in mind, so I do not put needless and worthless thoughts in my mind.  And this item convinced me to do this:  Luke 6: 45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.  So, if my mind and heart are full of junk, how can I benefit anyone?  TV news, newspapers, talk radio, most of Hollywood, negative conversations, etc: most of these items may pollute my mind and then influence my words, and then bring what I do not want!  

Tomorrow: How to manage your day to day issues and be happy.