Who has not seen a fretful, sick child taken up by a loving mother, yield to her soothing influence in a few minutes and drop off into restful, healthful, restoring sleep.  What a wonderful and forceful figure of speech, illustrative of a never-ceasing fact that the Spirit of all good, the supreme Force of Love and Power in the universe is looking, watching, without slumber or sleep, untiring, unfailing, ever ready to give soothing comfort as does the mother, to those who fret and worry.

Then, when cause for worry seems to be ever present, why not call upon this Loving Maternal Soothing Power?  Why not rest in His arms, and thus find peace, poise and serenity?

How much worry comes from fear as to the future.  Men become hoarders, savers, misers, or work themselves beyond healthful endurance, or shut out the daily joys of existence in their business absorption, because they dread poverty in their old age.  “Wise provision” becomes a driving monster, worrying them into a restless, fretful energy that must be accumulating all the time.

Two thousand years ago this trait of human nature was so strongly manifested that Christ felt called upon to restrain and rebuke it.  What a wonderful sermon He preached.  It is worth while repeating it here, and wise would that man, that woman be, who is worried about to-morrow, were he, she, to read it daily.  I give it in the revised version: 

I say unto you, Be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than the raiment?  Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your Heavenly Father feedeth them.  Are not ye of much more value than they?  And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?  And why are ye anxious concerning raiment?  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?  Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Be not therefore anxious for the morrow:  for the morrow will be anxious for itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew, 6:25-34.

Here is the wisest philosophy.  Anxiety is suicide, peace is life; worry destroys, serenity upbuilds.  As you want to live, to grow, possess your souls in peace and serenity.  Work, aye, work mightily,