EVERYTHING!

having cast all your anxiety on Him,

because He cares about you

1 Peter 5:7

Tickets purchased over a month ago; hotel secured; excitement building! Then, three days before the scheduled travel date, my friend discovered that the tickets wouldn’t pull up on the well-known ticket resale app. After hours of communication, it was clear: there were no tickets.

It was just a college football game.

I was new to “city” driving when I decided to make a hospital visit to an elderly friend from my hometown. I headed south across Kansas City, so I could see Mrs. Crum and return to my apartment well before dark. I found the hospital, and we had a pleasant visit. What I didn’t realize when I started back north was that many of the streets I had previously driven were one-way. I needed different streets to get home. (By the way, 1977 was pre-GPS!) In no time, I was hopelessly lost in a sketchy area, and I didn’t dare pull over to ask for help. Soon, it was after dark, and I had no idea how to get home!

I was just lost.

I had a busy day ahead of me. I wanted to look my best but be comfortable for whatever might come my way that day. I couldn’t decide what to wear.

I just needed to decide what to wear.

Life bombards us with numerous big and small issues throughout the day. Where are my keys, or that slip of paper where I jotted the phone number? How will I handle a sensitive conversation with one of the kids? Why am I feeling this way? What should I prepare for dinner? How can I deal with the anxious feelings boiling up in my mind and threatening to dampen my day? What if ______?

I just have so many “little” decisions to make each day.

I learned years ago that with God, there are no situations He would label as “Just…”. If I have a question, God has an answer. If I worry, God cares. Absolutely nothing in my life is too small to take to God in prayer.

Think about it like this: I am valuable to God, and so are you! Luke 12:7 states, “but even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.”

Would you like to know the end of the stories? Just a football game: Another friend “happened” to text today. When I shared the concern, she quickly replied, “Guess what? We have two extras that we hate to see wasted!” Lost in Kansas City: I fervently prayed aloud (more like a panic!) and had the sense to keep driving north. Finally, I came across an east/west street that I knew would intersect a familiar highway, albeit miles out of the way, but I would know how to get home from there! What to wear: Most days, this is how I choose what to wear! The little decisions: There are no insignificant issues with God. Everything is important!

Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap,

nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not much more important than they?

Matthew 6:26

I Peter 5:7 says to give God ALL your cares. Today, when you begin wondering how to handle even a minor issue, say aloud, “God, I choose to turn this over to You. How will You, my God, take care of it? I trust you.”

Delve Deeper: Begin reading one of the gospels in the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John). Make a list of every way Jesus cared for people.