Devotion: To relieve my anxiety.
Today's prayer is a meditation on my anxiety. I feel anxiety about almost everything, Anxiety is, among other things, produced by attachement to things of this world. We fear loss, and so we worry. The gospel tells us that we should be like the lillies of the field, who neither spin nor weave, and yet are clothed in great glory.
I used to take this to mean that if we believe we will be taken care of. This is true, but the promise is not for this world, but the next. Those who properly pray and reflect on life understand that life includes many burdens, and no clear promises. The clear promises come in the next life.
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