Once again you've made me smile. I really appreciate your wisdom and experiences. I'm going through one of those times right now...my first day of college starts tomorrow and things have been so busy. I feel as if the weight of the world is on my shoulders. One day at a time...that's good advice, and advice I often give others without stopping to think about applying it to my own life. Thank you for making me stop and think...and for encouraging me. :)

I read that book a long time ago, then I passed it on to another freind of mine. He was an entrepeneur and was in the grocery business. I believe his family ran it before him. Anyway, he said he enjoyed it very much. I like books that make you think, even if you end up not agreeing with whatever it is.

People learn from different sources.

I have never read Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People but now I'm interested. That is some great advice and it makes complete sense. However, I'm a very unorganized person... with a warped view of what is urgent, important, or neither. Maybe if I read that book I can pick up a few good habits. I tend to be putting out those fires quite often, mainly because I just love to procrastinate. (Not a good thing, I know).

Can I move to Quadrant Two with you? (Lol!)

Hugs,
-Neko

P.S. You've got some interesting topics.

Wow! What an insightful blog entry. It's amazing how things work out, isn't it? I'm so glad that you've come to this conclusion of "One day at a time". It seems that a lot of people and the bible have helped you along the way. I still struggle with such issues (feeling that I have too much to deal with, and such).

I admit, I'm not a Christian. I was raised as one, but I never went through with confirmation. I believe in God, but there are some things I disagree with (in accordance to how I was taught in Church & at my Catholic School). However, I can see where you are coming from with this comment and it strengthens my belief in God even more so. I try to remind myself that things will work out, and that things happen for a reason. If I'm really down in the dumps, I'll try asking for God's help. That usually calms me down a little.

Going along with "One day at a time", my MAIN way to get through emotional stress is to think towards the future. Soon, the "bad" day will be gone and a new one will be arriving. What will that day be like? How will I grow? What experiences will I go through?

That's my reason for moving forward and my way to get through the bad times. There's always a way; you've just got to look for it.

(Forgive me if I rambled or if I took the blog in a different manner than intended. I'm a tad tired. Oh! *Points towards your main blog quote* That explains it well.)

Hugs,
-Neko

Hello! I like what you said about how we take on burdens ourselves. That's so true. How many of us take on more than we can handle, thinking it's what we're supposed to do?
Isn't there another Bible verse about how worry never added one minute to our lives? Or am I misremembering?
D.L. Fields

Marsha,

What a delightful response to my comment!

Isn't communication such an amazing thing! So many times folks don't even realize that a miscommunication has taken place. This is an area that God is really at work on in my life right now.

I can also totally appreciate what you wrote about forgetting to pay a bill even when you had the money on hand! LOL

For me, I have always been a bit like the absent-minded professor . . . so it has always been a challenge for me to remember to pay my bills and other such things . . . but I can readily understand the idea of not looking at a bill so as not to stir up worry, and then forgetting to pay it.

I am glad that there was a "hit" with what I shared in this entry! I appreciate you clarifying with me!

(((Marsha)))

I like what God is doing between us! I think that it is amazing!

                   ~ ~ ~ ruwth ~ ~ ~

Actually, I think that I did understand what you were saying, it is I who didn't communicate what I meant very well. Like you later said you learned it from a source other than the bible, yet that understanding clearly explained that section of the Bible once you looked at it from that perspective.

It's a bit funny as I took a course several years ago in Christian Communications. One of the days we divided up into pairs and spent over an hour talking to each other. But instead of conversing like two people usually would, one person would speak and the other would say, "What you're telling me is this". Then the first person would agree or disagree. During one session it took my friend and I over an hour to finally come to an agreement in just one sentence we shared.

On your first post that I was replying to, it wasn't so much were you learned what you learned, but that you shared what you learned. Even though you weren't thinking about Matthew 6 when you learned the principle, it took you sharing it (the principle) in correlation with the verse for it to 'hit' my understanding.

As far as the not worrying and not preparing part of your comment, I understand that also. I'm not sure that I would have understood it before this current year. I'm trying to learn not to worry about how the bills will be paid, but sometimes in order to not worry, I can't look at them. But sometimes when I don't look at them I forget to pay them even when I have the money to do so.

One of the fun things about God working in us is that He is able to help us understand what we need at that moment in time, even if the person sharing isn't specifically talking about that very thing.

Excellent job, Ruwth, relaying your understanding of this verse. I've studied, memorized certain verses and taught this section in Matthew 6, but for whatever reason I'd never heard it put quite like that before. One day at a time, that reminds me of a song with the same title.

I too, try to remember that God won't give, or allow me to be burdened with more than I can handle. Sometimes that idea works right away and other times it takes a while before I can wrap my brain around it. It is certain that God doesn't want any of us to be anxious about any little thing, and when we are anxious it's usually when we are worried about the past or future. You stated it quite well. I like this banner also. In case it changes, it's the one from II Timothy 1:7. I like the way it has the shadow effect and surprisingly with that effect the letters are still crisp.