Article May 19, 1973 Issue

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JAMES LAWRENCE WRIGHT

A recent cartoon showed a patient lying on a psychiatrist's couch and telling the doctor, "My constant worry is that I might not always be so happy as I am at present."

Such a common, useless worry: "What will the future bring?" Happy people ask if things will turn bad; unhappy people doubt things will turn better. What if this happens? What if that happens? Will I have something to do on the weekend? Will I have too much to do during the week? Will my health, friends, supply, fail me in time of need?

Thinking about the future in either a worrying or daydreaming sense means that we do not believe God is complete enough to fill the present moment. We fancy that, somehow, if we look a little further to some other time or some other place or some other companions or some other activity, God will begin to care for us a bit more than He does now. St. Paul, aware of the timeless presence of the Christ, declared: "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."^{II Cor. 6:2;}

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