Worry

Worry

It’s one thing to tell people not to worry, it’s another to show them how (much less why). It’s one thing to tell people not to worry, it’s another to turn around and not worry yourself. These pearls of wisdom I’ve experienced lately due to my job. I was able to not worry about getting a new job. I had a hard time imagining how I would’ve explained this to my old self. He did a lot of worrying.
There are movies about someone’s future self showing up in the present, full of the kind of sage advice only a future self can have. What would you tell your past self? Would you calculate into the equation that you had to be ready for certain things first, before jumping into it? Would you remember some things one is never ready for, beforehand?
I could not go back in time and tell myself to quit drinking before he/me was ready. Nobody is “ready” for their first Airborne experience; you literally just have to jump. ‘till this day, I still don’t remember my first jump. I really don’t. I’m not sure being on auto-pilot qualifies as “ready”. Auto-pilot is the only reason I can think of for not remembering the event. It wasn’t traumatic. Jumping out of planes (& landing) was the easiest thing I did in the Army. This either doesn’t say a whole lot for the rest of the Army or says something really good about parachuting.
If I told my old self not to worry about getting a new job, the lesser thing would’ve been why. He/me would say because Jesus said not to worry, because each day has enough in and of it’s self. The larger thing would’ve been telling him how not to worry. This is where I have a hard time imagining how the phrase “give it up to the Lord & leave it in His hands” would be anything more than advice monks can take, but we laymen…? C’mon! Ironically that’s all I did though—and it seems to be working.
This is another self-centered blog from someone extolling the sage pearl of buying bonds & getting your kids on centering prayer TODAY! :)