by Ndidi Ngwuluka

Created on: February 11, 2009   Last Updated: June 29, 2009

Little children are careless in the care of their parents. They are not preoccupied with getting rather they respond to their parents' giving. Their attention is on their parents, trusting that their needs will be met by their parents even if they take ages. Whenever their parents do not meet their demands, they are still amazingly hopeful. That's why a parent will keep promising to buy his son a bicycle and the son keeps looking forward to it as weeks pass. Each day, the child remains his happy self; he does not hate his dad, nor does he think he is missing out. Next, he forgets about his demands and goes to play.

Like children, adults would be more relaxed and at peace if they do not preoccupy themselves with things that have not come their way. Rather they worry about the what ifs' which may never happen. They get so engrossed with what needs to be done that they do not appreciate what has been done. They worry about missing out of things others have they do not have and so don't see what they have that others don't have.

A mother worries about cost of sending her children to the university years before they are due to enrol. A newly married man gets worked up over the possibility of his wife not being able to have children. A single lady panics as she clocks 25 and still not married.

People worry over a lot of things that they ought not to worry about which in turn affect them physically, emotionally and psychologically and may subsequently lead to short life spans. If only people would know that they need not worry about what they are worrying about. What they do not understand is that as they take one day at a time, all their everyday concerns will be met.

It is also important to differentiate needs from wants. Most times we realize that it is the wants' that we worry about and allow to sap our joy. But we can relax, knowing there is far more to our lives than the things we worry about. God is interested in the tinniest details of our lives and so He will equip us to face whatever we encounter in our journey of life when they cross our paths.

Today has enough challenges so let us reserves the energy utilized in worrying about tomorrow's challenges to tackle today's challenges. And also like little children, let us be careless in the care of our maker.

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