A Overweight of Worry…,

There are many who carry the worries of the present reasonably well. But there are some who won’t let go of worries of the past, and even try to take on the worries of the future—and they do there is an overweight of worry. “We can easily manage, if we will only take each day, the burden appointed for it,” said John Newton. “But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over against today, and then add the burden of the morrow…before we are required to bear it.” We may well be equal to each hour and its opportunities and obligations but not to carry the whole weight of the past, present and future all at once, Some things we must put behind us, or the weight of them will drag us down, “In the morning,” said Marcus Aurelius, “let this thought be present: ‘I am rising to man’s work'”—not to a dull, accusing, unrepentant past, but to a day of doing what I should and can do. “We cannot live better that in seeking to become better,” said Socrates, “nor more agreeable than having a clear conscience.” “Live for future enthusiastically,” wrote Dr.Battista, “and bury everything about the past that will interfere with a positive attitude toward yourself and others.” “Come , my friend,” said Tennyson, “‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.” “Meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.” “A little more patience,” as Elbert Hubbard expressed it, “a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love…with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for the great burst of light and life.” Thankfully, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.” Thankfully, fervently Henry Webster said: “There is a Future, O thank God!”—a future that can in part at least be free from the clutter and the downdrag of that part of our lives which we should, repentant of and put in the past.