I need to stop worrying!

[beegirl]

I worry too much.
Not just over big important things…but little things that I later realize were of little importance.
If you knew me you wouldn’t say I’m a negative or pessimistic person, but at the end of the day I lay in bed thinking about things I should have done or could have done better and just driving myself crazy!
Usually I can laugh at myself, but sometimes it becomes so frustrating.
Praying helps. Its not that I don’t trust God – I do. I trust him to do whats best for me.
I guess I’m just selfish, and sometimes I want my way more than his…even when deep down I know he’s always right…does that make any sense?
Anyway I know this isn’t as desperate a request as some, but can you please pray that I wouldn’t worry so much…my life would be a lot easier that way!
Thanks!

 

[kamaan]

I guess I’m just selfish, and sometimes I want my way more than his…even when deep down I know he’s always right…does that make any sense?

This does make sense, and I understand exactly what you mean!

I don’t have much advice for you, except to remember what St. Padre Pio said: “Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”

I will also share with you this prayer:

Lord Jesus, Give Me Your Peace.

*Give me confidence in the depths of danger.
Give me hope when I am surrounded by fear.
Still my worries, calm the anxieties pressing in on me from the world I live in.
Lord Jesus, give me Your peace.

Reassure me that You are with me when I seem alone.
Ease my doubting, as You did Thomas’s.
Lord Jesus, give me Your peace.

Guide my searching for peace,
so that I may not seek it where it is not to be found,
but I may seek it in You.
Lord Jesus, live in me and give me Your peace. Amen.*

I will be praying for you!

 

[Trishie]

Self made crosses

Loving God, I want the burdens I carry be only those that You intend. Let self-made crosses no longer weaken me for genuine crosses that You permit! Lift from me those crosses that I construct out of fear, doubt or self-accusation.

Free me of those I subconsciously build in desire for appreciation and love. Free me from crosses of mistaken sense of mission. I want to accomplish the mission that You intend for me.

Free me from the errors of trying to carry and solve others’ problems where it is only my task to offer understanding, prayer, and what help that I can actually offer. Otherwise, in sleeplessness and anguish, I carry a cross of impracticality and helplessness that leaves me worn out, aiding no one. Yet inspire me to undertake, powerfully and sensitively, any means of genuine assistance to others.

Help me to recognise my areas of personal weakness or scarring that otherwise lead me to behave in ways unhelpful to others and myself. Fill me with the Holy Spirit’s prayer for them.

Please give me wisdom, faith, and charity to overcome tendencies and habits that impede me from Your service. Thus I, unhindered, am impelled to You in everything, in cooperation with the graces You desire to flood through my being at every instant, however secretly. Then, I am free, and I rejoice! For by Your mercy alone, my life is centred in You God, in self no longer!

 

[po18guy]

I can heartily recommend a book entitled Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe. It is only about 100 pages and is a quick read. However, there are many very important lessons in it that will assist you in combatting all sorts of things that can take your peace of heart away. Father uses scripture verses to back up his lessons. It is on Amazon and elsewhere for about $7-8.

 

[stormy99]

Trishie…I read your reply and then printed it out for reading at night…when I tend to lose track of what is important…and need help…I will read it along along with Prayers of Christian Consolation and the Imitation of Christ…both books help me spiritually

stormy

 

[beegirl]

thanks for the prayers kamaan and Trishie those are great.
and thanks for the book recomendation po18guy…i’ll check it out!