![]() It is a source of immeasurable satisfaction and comfort to me to know that God, who is the Source and Sustainer of life, can be trusted to see me all the way to the end and beyond. In so many ways, without my own plans and purposes, hard places have been made soft and rough places smooth. I did not create nor have I sustained my life through the years. Upon deeper reflection, I begin to see that my life is not now, nor has it ever been, my own. What a strange thing it is, this injunction! Up to this period of my life, I have seemed to survive by taking thought for my life. For me this will not be easy, nor do I lightly undertake it. Into God’s hand do I yield myself this day, with all that it involves for me, with the faith that I can take complete refuge in the knowledge and the love of God. ![]() ![]() ![]() I shall seek to broaden my exposure to those whose lives give forth confidence and calmness. ![]() I shall seek to limit my primary exposure to those who exploit my anxieties by their tendency to exaggeration and alarm. Confident am I that if I do not feed them they can- not long survive. I shall forsake them – cut them off from the food supply of my spirit. The following meditation, “Take no Thought for Your Life,” is from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. ![]()
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