"Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things?" - Luke 10:41

Some, like Martha in the story, spend an infinity of

trouble on the smallest things; worry themselves and the

household into a fever about the arrangement of a room,

the preparation of a meal, the loss of a shilling. They

dream of misfortunes if their children are an hour behind

time; they give the care which might win them the

knowledge of a science to the presentiments which beset

them as to the fate of those they love. . . . Why,

what sort of life is that? It is made up of peaceless-

ness. Leave the future in the hands of Eternal Love;

understand what it is to trust God; be not over-careful

for what is to come. He who has watched over you will

watch over those you love. A wiser love than yours

directs your little world.