davidtomlinartist - "Thy Hand is in this Design..."

From time to time I am reminded of my journey with unhealthy thinking patterns.  It seems we have to spend a lot of time re programming ourselves and deleting the old tapes that run amok sometimes in our heads to claim some happiness in this world.  I have learned a thing or two from our cat, Mr. Bingley, a creature of 'pure being'.  He just eats, sleeps, grooms and hunts for amusement all day.  Of course he has what I presume is little self-awareness and no sense of his own mortality...and does not ask himself existential questions, so he has little need for worry or anxiety.  


I am reminded of the Scripture passage... 

Do Not Worry

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^[a]?


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."

Matthew 6:25-34

New International Version (NIV)

It seems that Mr. Bingley can show me a thing or two about living....