Have you noticed that laundry and other housework does not naturally reset itself at the beginning of a new week? You don’t wake up on Monday morning to find that the counter is set to zero, and the baskets are miraculously empty for reloading. No, instead, we find that what awaits you on Monday morning is the culmination of what you have or have not addressed the previous week. When it comes to housework, there’s no “clean slate,” so to speak, unless you cleaned the slate, or are progressively cleaning the slate. This is not a difficult concept. So why do we struggle to apply this same reasoning with our attitude towards worry? Jesus tells us not to worry, to be anxious for nothing. But, rather than addressing the worry and anxiety the moment it comes into our minds, we so often grow lazy and allow the piles of fruitless […]