Don’t Worry

Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. — Philippians 4:6.

St. Paul provides several Lenten messages in very few words.

He repeats Jesus’s message that we need not be anxious — simply, turn our anxieties and worries over to God. But Paul adds a little twist. He reminds us to pray our worries to God with “Thanksgiving.” He reminds us to be grateful at the same time we are asking God to intervene. What Paul knew and we discover if we follow his guidance is that when we begin our discussion with God with gratitude, we will often be overcome with peace and contentment. Like magic, we realize or problems aren’t so bad after all. There is nothing like a little “Thanksgiving” to calm a troubled soul.

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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.