Monday Musings... Worry

I have always been a worrier by nature. My Mama knicknamed me "the worry wart" early on. What did I worry about? Everthing! As an adult, I have lost most of my worry habits. I attribute that to the fact that I know now that I am not in control of every situation, God is. So when I start to worry, I start to pray. However, I do still have a tendency to let worry back in. Old habits die hard I guess.

Here are some quotes about worry...

"Every evening I turn my worries over to God.

He's going to be up all night anyway."

~Mary C. Crowley

“When I look back on all these worries,

I remember the story of the old man

who said on his deathbed

that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,

 most of which had never happened”

~Winston Churchill

“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,

and one who has any faith in God

should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever”

 ~Mahatma Ghandi

(well then, what a reminder for me!)

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” ~Proverb

“If you can't sleep,

then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying.

It's the worry that gets you,

not the lack of sleep.”

~Dale Carnegie

“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.

If encouraged,

it cuts a channel into which

 all other thoughts are drained.”

 ~Arthur Somers Roche

“Every tomorrow has two handles.

We can take hold of it

with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith.”

~Henry Ward Beecher quotes

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Since you cannot do this very little thing,

why do you worry about the rest?" ~Luke 12:25-26

What about you, are you a worrier? How do you keep worry at bay?