I've been trying to practice mindfulness lately. Mindfulness is keeping your mind on the here and now. I tend to want to worry all the time. I rehash mistakes, I beat myself up over the past, and I worry about future decisions and changes. It's not a healthy practice because you make yourself crazy and waste the time given to you right now. Mindfulness, simply put, is keeping your head in the present. It's not easy and it takes practice, but it's a good habit to learn. Mindfulness is taught in the scriptures, like here in Luke. I got this verse from biblehub.com
25Therefore
I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or
what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold
the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not
much better than they?
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
It gives me peace knowing that God is on top of everything. So really, why worry? See you tomorrow. ~Promise
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