Worry

How would you like to play a simple game?  I call this the WIMF (Where Is My Faith?) Gam

Directions:  Pick a glass container and designate it as your official WIMF CUP.  Now gather together a collection of marbles or small pebbles and place them in a bag near your cup along with a score sheet.  Every time a worried thought pops in your head, place a marble into the container and record on the memo pad a slash mark.  Next, pray and ask God to build your faith and eliminate the worry.  Any worried thoughts that keep you from sleeping or working effectively cost 10 points each.  {For those of you who travel a lot, instead of a container, place the marbles in your pocket.  You now have a fairly obvious reminder of what it means to carry around worries all day!} At the end of each week tally your score.  The goal of this game is to reduce your score weekly which hopefully means you are building your faith!  May the Real Force be with you!

*Tip:  This game is a great visual reminder for children about how important it is to trust God.  And it is even more fun when you add players.  Pick someone you know who has a tendency to worry and challenge them. Lowest score at the end of the week wins. 
 
Meditation
Matthew 6:25-27--This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying?
 
Inspiration 
It is not only wrong to worry, it is real infidelity because it means we do not believe God can look after the little practical details of our lives, it is never anything else that worries us . . . If once we accept the revelation of Jesus Christ that God is our Father and that we can never think of anything He will forget, worry becomes impossible.—Oswald Chamber in Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
 
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Ecclesiastes 12:10-The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and to accurately write words of truth.  (Holman CSB)