My New found Worry Free Philosphy

"25Then Jesus said to His disciples: 'Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you eat or what you drink; or about you body, what you will wear. 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? 27Can anyone of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" 

Matthew 6:25-27 

   I've already posted a quote about how worrying is futile but I still feel compelled to write further on the subject since it is recurrent in my own life. In the times I feel most out of control it seems like my go to reaction these days is to worry and/or to break down in tears. I don't always realize I'm worrying. However, in actuality, the moment I distrust that God has everything under control and I stray from His path, I am worrying. When I make the decision to try and take control of my life I begin to worry. I desire to trust God's plan for me, it's just become a part of my nature to worry about the things I cannot control.
   It's an odd sensation, worrying. I often use it as a substitution for the control I lack in my life. It's as if worrying will fix the problem when it does the exact opposite. Worrying is the very thing that removes control from my life. When I worry instead of trusting God, I virtually eliminate Him as a solution to my problem. Seeing that God is the one who can fix all of my problems, worrying in turn makes my life infinitely harder to live. Even though I want to be in control and I want to be able to fix my own problems; it just simply is not within my power to do so. SO WHY WORRY ABOUT IT!

   I had a dream the other night. One of those dreams that are so vivid that they feel real. I woke up the next morning to be hit by reality that my perfect dream was nothing but a fantasy. I spent that whole day worrying about what had happened in the dream that I could barely live my life. I was confused and out of it. I didn't want to accept what the dream really meant, so naturally I worried about it. Before that night I was doing so well controlling that area of my life, it bothered me to no end that I could not control it in my subconscious. However, deep in my heart I knew that I wouldn't be able to get rid of the gnawing thought that had me worrying in the first place; I had to seek advice.

   My friends are so very helpful in this way. They were able to tell me not to worry. They told me that even though the dream felt incredibly real that I was nothing but a dream. It didn't have to mean anything. I just simply needed to not let it bug me. We were also able to talk some other things out but the bottom line is, that I made a mountain of a mole hill. I brought my dream life into reality and began to worry about it. It took a little perspective and a little reflection to realize that worrying about the dream is a fruitless endeavor.

    Just moments after getting off of the phone, my best friend texted me to listen to a song, Just A Friend by Jamie Grace, that was basically the anthem of my life. The last two verses are what really helped me to surrender and give all my worries over to God. It reads:

So Father, I will place this in your hands, 

You Know me and all my crazy plans,

Humbly I surrender this to you, 

So I'll keep dreaming 

And you'll keep coming through

I know you see what I don't see

So I'll be just a friend

I'll be just a friend

I know that I will be happy 

Even if I'm just a friend

I'll be just a friend

So yeah, that's that

Oh that's that

I'll be that

I'm telling you, I'm gonna be just that

The next time your thinking about worrying about anything, rethink. Don't let the things you can't control take control of you. Be free and happy in the life that you are living and enjoy the things that are in your control and make you happy.