Worry can take you down.

If you're like me, or like pretty much every other human being... you worry a lot. Whether it's money, work, school, family, relationships, anything, we are always stressing out. That was definitely me this weekend (as always) until I remembered... God doesn't like it when I worry. It means I'm not trusting Him to take care of everything. So I looked in my lovely Message Bible and found these incredibly soothing verses.

"Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life." - Phillipians 4:6-7

"My dear children, let's not just talk about love, let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality. It's also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves." - 1 John 3:18-20

Woah.

I can come to God with my worries and then be filled with His wholeness and know everything will come together for the greater good. And of course He's greater than my worried heart.

Enough said.