Editorial March 30, 1987 Issue

Take no thought for your body?

Carolyn B. Swan

Christ Jesus' Sermon on the Mount has a few passages that I have squirmed over. One of these that I now regard as comforting is the beautiful "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" Matt. 6:25.

It isn't that I wouldn't always have answered "Yes" to Jesus' question; who wouldn't! But did I always obey the admonition which precedes it?

The divergence, at least so I found, lay in the sometimes mammoth effort it took to provide what many call the basic necessities—food, clothing, and shelter. This effort appeared to demand very much taking of thought for the body especially during a time when I found myself as a newlywed in the position of being both a homemaker and a breadwinner. My husband was still in college and working only part time.

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