SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD

I have been told that one of the biggest stress producers in our lives is moving. Must be why my blood pressure was up this week. That and the bad eating as I drove across middle America on my 2000 mile trek to my new location. The stressful part for me was the unpacking of boxes and the figuring out what to do with the accumulated junk in my life. But do not feel sorry for me as right now I'm sitting on my lanai gazing down at the canal, listening to the fish jump and the birds chirp. There is nothing stressful about that. Everyone's stress level is different and what I consider as stressful someone else probably considers a walk in the park. I have found that the older I get the less I want stress in my life. But the move itself was not the stressor for me, it is the amount of money I am spending as I pack up boxes, drive for 4 days and stay in motels for 4 nights, pay a moving company to bring my belongings along and then spend more money on fixing up the new place, buying those items I couldn't or didn't want to move, buying new furniture, and on and on. Money has always been a stresser for me, which is sad since I've been blessed with never knowing what it meant not to have any money. So why the stress? I think it comes from a father who lived through the depression. Wherever its origins I take time right now to stop and give thanks to God for all the blessing I have in my life and remind myself that God is the provider of everything in the universe, including money, and if I "Let Go and Let God" all my wants and needs are taken care of in this moment in time. For as Jesus said in Luke:12: 27-31 "Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink, neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God's Kingdom and all these things will be added to you." I think I'll go seek me a little God today!