No worries.

Day by day, I go through life, having petty worries here and there. Sometimes I worry about school, about a project that’s due in a few days that I haven’t started. Sometimes I worry about my lack of money, about my parents, what my college major will be, who I will marry, will I ever get married, will I be successful in life, or maybe just what in the world I am going to eat for dinner because I’m starved. I’ve just recently had my eyes opened on this though. Once I stopped looking at my own worries and saw others hardships, my concerns seemed absolutely minuscule compared to theirs. I know people who suffer from depression, who have lost loved ones, who are feeling completely hopeless in life. People who just need someone. Why can’t I just stop being selfish for one second and see that there are others who need me, more than I need myself? Others who are in more pain and suffering than I am, while I sit and wallow about my own feelings and emotions that are unimportant. It’s really a sad thing that some of us don’t realize this until it’s too late. That we’ve been blind all this time, focusing on our own problems. Why do we even worry about our problems, when we know there’s a supreme and loving God who’s taking care of us? Who’s looking down on us, just saying “smh” to himself because we worry so much. He will and does take care of us. Why can’t we just let Him take the lead? Why can’t we just stop in our tracks and see that God’s taking care of everyone? While He’s working in my life, I can go out and help someone else who just needs a friend, someone that can help them keep their faith in God through difficult times and be a good influence and rock in their life.

Sometimes I look back and I see how selfish I’ve been. How I’ve never really considered other people’s perspectives and problems, just my own. I always think I am right, when usually, I am wrong. It’s okay to be wrong, though. You learn from your lessons. I suppose it makes me sad and disappointed in myself. It makes me want to be a better person, to serve God by serving others. To be a light in their life and a friend when they’ve got no one else. Most of all, I need to practice humility, and realize that I’m not always right. Even when it seems like it and I think I am. I must be selfless, I must be humble.

He must become greater; I must become less. – John 3:30

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?… But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. – Matthew 6:25, 33

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