I long ago learned to mentally adapt to what actually happens.
Trying to pre-adapt to possible/maybe's is a waste of energy.
It might sound like a copout, but I sleep well, my stress levels are low, and my mind is better occupied. My wife, on the other hand, tends to worry about 'what-if's' and it stresses her out.
My apparent lack of caring seems to bother her as well :) If anyone could come up with a way to explain my approach positively I'd be grateful, because she just doesn't get it. I'm starting to think it's genetic :)
Matthew 6:25-34
New International Version
Do Not Worry(A)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry(B) 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.(C) Are you not much more valuable than they?(D) 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?(E)
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(F) 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?(G) 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.(H) 33 But seek first his kingdom(I) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.(J) 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own!
YOU my friend have the secret to success in life! Why in the world would you worry or even spend time meditating on what ifs ! If you can change a negetive into a positive by all means do it ! But worrying about something before it happens will only attract negativity ! Like water off a ducks back is the only way to be , don’t let the water ( worry ) seep in ,, it will turn to mold!
Thank you. What amazes me the most is how much it seems to bother other people that I don't worry about things, trusting in God that whatever happens is because he loves me.
Misery loves company ,, ever hear ? Lol
Worring is a form of fear and is the opisite of trusting God ,,, it’s actually from the devil so let them know that . Jesus called fear a spirit and it’s not the Holy Spirit
I long ago learned to mentally adapt to what actually happens.
Trying to pre-adapt to possible/maybe's is a waste of energy.
It might sound like a copout, but I sleep well, my stress levels are low, and my mind is better occupied. My wife, on the other hand, tends to worry about 'what-if's' and it stresses her out.
My apparent lack of caring seems to bother her as well :) If anyone could come up with a way to explain my approach positively I'd be grateful, because she just doesn't get it. I'm starting to think it's genetic :)
I have learned that we must recognize our acute surroundings and then respond to them, or be subject to what was planned to happen in them.
Matthew 6:25-34 New International Version Do Not Worry(A) 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry(B) 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.(C) Are you not much more valuable than they?(D) 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?(E)
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(F) 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?(G) 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.(H) 33 But seek first his kingdom(I) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.(J) 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own!
YOU my friend have the secret to success in life! Why in the world would you worry or even spend time meditating on what ifs ! If you can change a negetive into a positive by all means do it ! But worrying about something before it happens will only attract negativity ! Like water off a ducks back is the only way to be , don’t let the water ( worry ) seep in ,, it will turn to mold!
Thank you. What amazes me the most is how much it seems to bother other people that I don't worry about things, trusting in God that whatever happens is because he loves me.
Misery loves company ,, ever hear ? Lol Worring is a form of fear and is the opisite of trusting God ,,, it’s actually from the devil so let them know that . Jesus called fear a spirit and it’s not the Holy Spirit