A dear friend whose family came from the Far East observed that “Americans worry a lot.”
Do you agree? Do you worry a lot?
When I thought about my friend’s observation I concluded she was probably right. I also concluded that during those times I worried a lot too much worrying didn’t do me much good. In fact, no good at all.
Excessive worry should raise a red flag in our heart — a warning that we are replacing faith in God with an ill conceived notion that we are in control.
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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.
A YouTube video by the late Michael Crichton underscores Webb’s point. Take a look at the newspaper headlines from the past to see what we worried about. Pick a date and Google it. For example, from 30 years ago at the New York Times:
1. Farm failures leading to bank failures
2. No progress in baseball strike.
3. Richard Nixon had cancer
4. Drunk drivers suing bars and restaurants
5. Riots in South Africa.
6. Rebellion in Nicaragua.
When he was an old man Mark Twain observed, “I have endured a great many calamities in my life, most of which never happened.”