What, Me Worry?

Mother's Day at our church isn't about baby's breath corsages or crocheted crosses, thank goodness. Nor did we didn't get any comforting thoughts about how God loves mothers and will give them a special star in their crowns of motherly martyrdom when they arrive in heaven.

No, we got a message about worry. Ha!

And, funny, worry is all about the need to control--mostly other people--mostly our kids. The busybody mom, the guilt-trip mom, the stage-manager mom, the obsessive mom--these moms are pretty funny on the TV screen, but not in my kitchen. And certainly not in my brain. Yet I know that my thoughts often follow the path of the women who went before me, some of whom were Professional Worriers, aka Control-Freaks.

I don't want to be one of those moms. Do you? Are you, and you don't even realize it? Take a gander at the list below and see if you need to let something (or someone) go.

Ten Revelations About Your Worrylife

From Matthew 6: 25-34. It's a famous passage about worry.

1. v. 25 Worry is a preoccupation with physical provision at the expense of the eternal value of the inner person.
2. v. 26 Worry tears away and destroys the value God places on a life.
3. v. 27 Not only is worry worthless, it's a liability to what God wants to build in our lives (our reputations of character).
4. v. 28 Worry is blindness to all God has created and maintains.
5. v. 29 Worry limits us from experiencing God's best by focusing on man's best.
6. v. 30 Worry is ignoring and discarding all God has done and wants to do in my life.
7. v. 31 Worry is to be controlled by the present.
8. v. 32 Worry is a condition that reveals either trust in God or man
9. v. 33 Worry is a result of seeking what I want, rather than what God wants.
10. v. 34 Worry is the expectation of trouble.

So, moms, what's worrying you today?