A thought by Max Lucado (2012-02-06) from his book, Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear (p. 46). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Here is the whole paragraph that Max puts this thought. It says, “Jesus doesn’t condemn legitimate concern for responsibilities but rather the continuous mind-set that dismisses God’s presence. Destructive anxiety subtracts God from the future, faces uncertainties with no faith, tallies up the challenges of the day without entering God into the equation. Worry is the darkroom where negatives become glossy prints.” Wow! He goes on, “A friend saw an example of perpetual uneasiness in his six-year-old daughter. In her hurry to dress for school, she tied her shoelaces in a knot. She plopped down at the base of the stairs and lasered her thoughts on the tangled mess. The school bus was coming, and the minutes were ticking, and she gave no thought to the fact that her father was standing n
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...