not to worry...

We are struggling financially at the center right now. I've asked everyone I can think of to pray for us and I've also asked everyone to give me names of people who could be interested in supporting us in a financial way so that I can ask them to help. I've never liked asking people for money but lately I've been considering all the ways in which our clients benefit by our presence in the neighborhood and they far outweigh any discomfort I will have in asking (begging!). We who work at the center have been brainstorming ideas for fundraisers, too.

I'm actually quite skilled at begging for clients so this SHOULD be a piece of cake. My contact at the Archdiocese who administers a small fund to support women in crisis pregnancies told me a while ago that she'd decided that, if she ever had to train in someone to do her job, she would tell the person just to give me what I want whenever I called because it would circumvent all my whining, begging and complaining to which he/she would have to listen if he/she didn't. I told her that was very sound reasoning. Then, we laughed. (For the record, she HAS said no to me a couple of times over the years...) When it comes to my clients' needs, I doggedly try to find ways to help them meet them!

I will not worry, even though that is my natural inclination. One of my favorite Bible passages, the one that seems to have been written especially for my benefit, begins with Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? 27 Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?"

Indeed, are we not more important than the birds in the sky to God? That passage, when I think I should worry about something, brings great solace to me. What a blessing faith is!