vacation

Today, I am going on vacation. I won’t need a suitcase or an airport. I won’t even be leaving my house. Nothing on the outside will look different, but on the inside everything will change, because this is a vacation from worry. I will simply do the next good and right thing, and I will practice leaving tomorrow to tomorrow. When anxious thoughts come knocking, I won’t invite them in and offer them tea and entertain them. Who knows—maybe I will stay on vacation all week.

“So don’t worry about tomorrow. . . .” Matthew 6:34

“[T]he word tomorrow must stand for any and every point of the future. The next hour, the next moment, is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. [Anxious] care for the next minute is just as foolish as [anxious] care for tomorrow, or for a day in the next thousand years--in neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. Those claims only of tomorrow which have to be prepared today are of the duty of today; the moment which coincides with work to be done, is the moment to be minded; the next [moment] is nowhere till God has made it. . . .” George Macdonald

“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.” Matthew 6:34, The Message