"Are You Not Much More Valuable Than They?"

The birds and lilies teach me better!
(Alexander Smellie, "The Hour of Silence" 1899)

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow
or reap or store away in barns, and yet your
heavenly FATHER feeds them. Are you not
much more valuable than they?" Matthew 6:26  

Let me not worry--
the birds and lilies teach me better.
GOD spreads a table for the sparrows,
and clothes the wayside anemones
with their exquisite beauty.
And I am dearer to HIM by far.

I, who am made in HIS image, and
for whom HIS SON has died, and whom
HE means to dwell with HIM in HIS Heaven--
I occupy a larger place in HIS heart of hearts.

Let me not worry--
it serves no good purpose to fret 
and worry. I cannot, with all my
solicitude, add a cubit either to
my stature or to my age.

Anxiousness will only plunge me into
mental distress and annoyance and sorrow,
without bringing me any compensating
advantage whatever. It knows how to wound;
but ah! it does not know how to heal. 

Let me not worry--
a child should have more confidence 
in his FATHER'S wisdom and watchfulness 
and love. It may be excusable for worldly
men and women to worry--
but not a son in the royal and
wealthy family of the King of kings!

There is no justification for him if he goes
worried and burdened during the day, and lies
down to hours of sleeplessness at night.

"So do not worry . . . For the pagans run 
after all these things, and your heavenly FATHER 
knows that you need them!" Matthew 6:31-32 

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