HELP! I can't stop worrying!

Today's reading (Mathew 4-7) is packed FULL of good stuff.  You could spend weeks going through it, analyzing it, and picking it apart.  However, Matthew 6:25-34 really speaks to me today.  I am such a worrier, and it is not from God.  I have been told that to worry is to sin.  How could I have put my entire trust in God when I worry about money, my relationships, my material possessions, my family, and ironically my relationship with God himself?  Worrying gets me thinking in broad cyclical patterns and sets my mind racing about things that I need not give a second thought to.  Sometimes worrying can even distort reality; every situation can begin to look hopeless.  Jesus promises that he cares for us, and that we need only to focus on him and his Kingdom.   We are to put our hope in Him.  So today (and every day, but it is really a one day at a time kind of deal) I choose not to worry about all of these things, count my blessings and give thanks to Yahweh for the love and care he has for me and my brothers and sisters.

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?    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.