Hello ,

Dustin Hoffman is 77, a double Oscar-winner, and a screen legend in no danger of having that title taken away. But he's worried about the future. In a recent (August 2015) interview, Hoffman talked about how he often worries about future failure in his career:

I would bet it's not just me. We worry about the next thing. There are these extraordinary tennis players, who get out there, and they admit that they're just shaking, to be able to get the next serve in. That's all of us. They say you're only as good as your last picture. Well, we only think we're as good as our last good piece of work.

Hoffman admitted one of his biggest fears: "It's that [I'm] never going to be hired again. And that's a constant fear..."*

What do you worry about?  What keeps you up at night?  Perhaps it's just that nagging little thought that won't let you alone.  Whatever it is, these things can consume us can't they?

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."  Matthew 6:25-34

It's one thing to be told not to worry about anything...it's quite another to actually accomplish that task.  If you are anything like me you need help in this area.  God stands ready and waiting to answer our request for peace about the things that concern us in our daily lives.  Let's communicate with Him and lay our burdens at His feet!

Have a great day and God bless!

Pastor Mike /  The Open Word