THE SUN WILL COME OUT...TODAY!

There are a lot of "buts" in my mind when I read the following:

    ²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look 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? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

   ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

But....isn't it irresponsible to NOT think about the future?  do not worry about your life

But....shouldn't we plan ahead and make sure that there is food on the table? do not worry about what you will eat or drink

But....I want to look nice and I love new clothes - they give me a boost when I'm feeling down...besides - I go to my closet and I don't have anything to wear! And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow....not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these..... will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
But....But....   

I guess Little Orphan Annie had not been reading this scripture when she sang this:
 

She sings, "When I'm stuck with a day that's gray and lonely, I just stick out my chin, and grin and say - The sun'll come out tomorrow, so ya gotta hang on 'til tomorrow....it's only a day away!"

I don't think I want to wait until tomorrow, it never comes.

I have really been struck by this 'living in the now' subject recently. My sister has been speaking with me about living today... not in the past or the future... but just today. As I had been ruminating on it for a while, a new friend of mine told me about her surviving cancer. She was telling me about a post treatment retreat she went to where someone challenged her to live TODAY. Not in the past, where cancer was painful and frightening - nor in the future that asks whether the cancer will return...or should she return to work and what shall she do with the rest of this life that she has?


TODAY.... I do think I like the sound of that word. It makes me more relaxed. 

When I say "yesterday" or "tomorrow" I get a tightness in my shoulders from the load that sits there.

So what does this mean for me?

ABIDE  ...there is that pesky little word that keeps returning to me. ABIDE. If you have read anything I have written so far, you know that this subject continues to dog me. I am working hard at paying attention to it.


Back to not worrying about tomorrow... it says that if we worry about this stuff, we are no different from those who worship everything BUT God. The crazy thing is...he already knows that we need them and says he will give them to us as we look at him and his purposes.


It sums it all up with the phrase "Each day has enough trouble of its own."  Darn right it does!

So, for today - I am going to live now and not worry about the future. Apparently, it's already handled.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am still stocking up on Top Ramen when they are 18 cents at Red Apple and am certain to stand in front of my closet and wonder what in the world will I wear that will hide my muffin top, look cute, but not look like I am a 55 year old woman trying to look like a 35 year old.

But maybe I won't worry - oh me of little faith.


P.S. - I would LOVE to hear how some of you live today...some people have a knack for enjoying right now - what are some of the ways you do it?