A Calm Heart
Wherefrom?
Wherefrom comes this ball of worry that greets me this morn? My dwelling is tidy, my chores complete, my body healthy. And yet my heart races and my belly is tight.
Is this how I respond to having obligations, Lord? Yesterday’s work is done, but I have chores this day. Would my heart be calm if I had nothing that must be done?
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Grant me a willing heart, Lord, that I may approach this day with equanimity.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I have more equanimity in the face of worry?
Reading:
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” — Marcus Aurelius
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“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” — Philippians 4:6 (KJV).
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