A thought by John Ortberg from his book, The Me I Want to Be (p. 117). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) But is that something to feel guilty about? John says, “Maybe you are a champion worrier. Maybe you can’t remember the last time you were not worried. If you ever find yourself not worried, you get worried that there is something you should be worried about. And so, you worry until you figure out what it is. Sometimes when you hear messages or read books about worry, they can do more harm than good, because what you take away is, I shouldn’t worry so much. I guess I just don’t trust God enough. Then you worry about how much you worry.” He goes on, “Much of our tendency to worry comes from the raw material we were born with. In his book Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman writes that from birth, 15 – 20 percent of children are prone to timidity. They are finicky about new foods, reluctant abou...
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