"Do you know enough to worry?"
Let’s say I give you an apple seed. It’s a seed from a Washington Red Delicious. You love and have eaten bushels of them. You’ve even picked them. You know a tree-ripened apple from one picked early and sprayed to ripen. You make your own apple pies. You know just about everything there is to know about apples…
…except one thing. I ask you to look at that apple seed and tell me how many apples are in it. You can’t. And of course you can’t. You don’t know what the future holds. It’s reasonable to assume that seed contains bushels and bushels of apples in it, but it may hold none. You don’t know enough to say.
Just as you can’t look at that apple seed and tell me how many apples are in it, you don’t know enough about the future to worry. You can’t look at a life situation and tell what it contains. Sure, you can worry about a lot of possible outcomes, but you can’t with certainty say what will happen.
When you start to worry today, remember: God knows. And God is in control.
posted by Listen To Life @ 7:04 AM
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Dear Joey,
Today's column about the apple seed was particularly meaningful. I had been working along the same line myself but found your analogy a perfect one. For the past year I have been in the hands of the doctors (prostate trouble) and realize for the first time what it is to experience those meetings where one never knows what is coming next. I find that once the worry is overcome the rest can be handled fairly easily! Also, and this is wonderful, as the problems increase, so do the blessings. Best regards, Ned
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