{"id":802,"date":"2010-04-17T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T11:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortispress.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:29:50","slug":"blessed-are-the-worriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Are the Worriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1079\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Blessed are the worriers for they will obtain great sympathy on earth and great reward in heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not in the Bible, but, sometimes, I act as if it were. Anyway, I&#8217;m wondering if worry and pride go together. Pretty sure they don&#8217;t for everyone (so, if the shoe doesn&#8217;t fit, please don&#8217;t put it on), but I&#8217;m thinking the association fits this worrier.<\/p>\n<p>One, because I sometimes treat my stress related ailments (a stiff neck, an uneasy stomach) like a battle injury. &#8220;Yep, got that bad arm in &#8217;43, trying to disarm a German sentry at the Battle of the Bulge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, two, sometimes I&#8217;ve judged non-worriers as (pick one) naive, lazy or irresponsible. &#8220;How can you play with your kids knowing you don&#8217;t have a job tomorrow? How can you sleep at night with a child in Afghanistan?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the answer to both questions is easy. The non-worrier is exercising biblical faith. He or she is probably just humble.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not trying to be God because they know the position is already filled.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we worriers know that, too; we just don&#8217;t act like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blessed are the worriers for they will obtain great sympathy on earth and great reward in heaven.&#8221; No, it&#8217;s not in the Bible, but, sometimes, I act as if it were. Anyway, I&#8217;m wondering if worry and pride go together. Pretty sure they don&#8217;t for everyone (so, if the shoe doesn&#8217;t fit, please don&#8217;t put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}