I saw a refrigerator magnet in someone’s kitchen that I just gotta share with you.

This family had been going through some rough stuff.

And not just recently.

The kind of things that aren’t easily fixable, if they’re fixable at all.

Other people, including you and me if we’re honest, would have given up.

Or started looking for someone to blame.

But right there in the kitchen was the foundation of the home.

On the front of the refrigerator.

Framed in a little yellow plastic square.

These words: “Why pray when you can worry?”

I loved that question, and when I stopped chuckling the seriousness of it hit me.

Flip that funny little plastic refrigerator magnet’s ironic question around and you find the basis for the sustainable faith that gives this family stability. Cast all your anxiety on God, because he cares for you, says 1st Peter 5:7.

Indeed, “Why worry when you can pray?”

…but I still love the clever brilliance of the original question: “Why pray when you can worry?”

See you back here tomorrow.

And meanwhile, let’s pray more and worry less.