…not for tomorrow, or two weeks from now or next year.  Grace is an enabling portion of strength, courage, spiritual empowerment and anything else I need to cause me to be able to cope with whatever my circumstances happen to be at the moment.  If I can capture this principle of living within the portion of grace allotted to me today, anxiety can’t get a grip on me.  God’s Word tells us that ’sufficient for the day is the evil thereof’.  I boil that down to this: today is filled with enough concerns, issues, and problems.  Wait until tomorrow to fret about what tomorrow holds.  If we ‘can’t add 1 minute to our lives by worrying’ according to scripture, why do we keep trying to do just that?!  Argh.

Practically, we’re doing things and planning things today, for tomorrow, ie., buying Christmas gifts for December 25th, getting tickets for the concert 2 weeks from tomorrow, making travel arrangements for January, etc.  But in my heart and mind I’m not going to try to bear the weight of all the myriad of details those days will contain.  I’m not equipped to emotionally carry the burden of the future, in the present.   How do I know?  Because I’ve tried to so many, many times and I always end up obsessing and hand-wringing – two truly unproductive activities.

The battle is in the mind.  Fight the good fight. 

I’m gonna go check my turkey soup.