Why Worry?

...That is a question that typically haunts me. I am a worry wart...my poor children are going to have a very hard time, my husband has already whispered this to our in-eutero child. Why do we worry? I could spend hours worrying about whether or not I unplugged my straightener before running out the door (when I remember unplugging it from the wall). Or whether I locked the front door (I check every night at least 3 times). When one spends so much time worrying you miss something huge. That is, you miss living. Now, there will always be little moments of worry, it's our nature, but in that moment say a little prayer and flush it out of your mind. My mom always tells me to give my worries to Mary our Mother, asking her to place it at her Son's feet, and every time I feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.

Most of the time when we worry it's over things that in that moment we can not change.

There are lots of people who believed that the world was going to end this past May. People who put time and money into this thought, who for the past few years have stopped living, in preparation for something that did not happen. Why spend so many years waiting, worrying, and preparing for an idea that may or may not happen.

There is a song by Tim McGraw, "Live Like You Were Dying." To this day, I cannot listen to this song, every time I hear the first few beats I change the station otherwise I'll tear up. Why? Even though my dad is perfectly healthy, I picture that man in the song as my dad, and as a daddy's girl, I cannot bear to imagine life without my dad.

Have you ever sat and really listened to those lyrics? The song is about a man who finds he doesn't have long to live, and instead of worrying or waiting for the inevitable, he celebrates life, "I went Skydiving, rocky mountain climbing..." "I became a better husband, most the time I wasn't." Why does it take a tragic news like that to bring us to really live? We should be living everyday as if it were our last. That doesn't mean live everyday for yourself; live everyday for yourself, for others and most importantly for God.