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Are you concerned about many things at this time?
Maybe anxious, wondering how you are going to survive this present time - or worried about the future?

How you will pay the mortgage.
Where the next meal is going to come from.
How will you be able to afford that new school uniform you must buy for your child.
Maybe concerns about that new job you have just started. The people you will meet. Will you be able to make friends easily?
Maybe it’s a concern of a very serious nature; the well-being of a relative or friend whose health has recently deteriorated.

Whatever your concerns - there is an answer.
Here are comforting words, which we trust will bring you peace. We want to share with you, the words of Jesus from Luke's gospel chapter 12 verses 22-31:

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Jesus' words do not encourage us to a life of reckless stupidity.
There are certain things it's very proper to be concerned about.
But looking at our stressed-out society. Jesus would certainly tell us we worry too much.
He would gently call us towards a life of trust in God.

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