A constant anticipation of evil which perhaps never will come, a foreboding which takes away life and energy from the present, will simply hinder and cloud the soul, and make it timid and sad.
If troublous thoughts as to the future will press, darkening a bright present, or hurrying on coming clouds, the safest thing is to offer them continually as they arise to God, offering too the future which they contemplate, and asking for grace to concentrate our energies on the immediate duties surrounding us.
Many have dreaded troubles which they thought must come; and while they went on ever expecting to make the turn in their path which was to open out fully to the evil, lo!, they found that they had reached the journey's end and were at the haven where they would be.
- Henrietta Louisa Sidney Lear
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