Sermon Lessons: Coping
34 "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes." (Matthew 6:34) There are many life events that we just barely eke by with any semblance of being "all together" at the culmination. There are others that we seem to simply "sail" through. Which do you prefer? I think we'd all say that we want the ones that we can "sail" through opposed to those that give us cause to reconsider! I once read that we should not borrow from tomorrow what rightfully belongs in tomorrow. That is the definition of worry in a nutshell - bringing imaginations about the "what if" of tomorrow into the "known" of today. The very definition of "coping" is to struggle or deal. I imagine that we all have days where we are simply "dealing" with stuff - not really ris...