“Why are you anxious?” Read Matthew 6:24-34 every Thursday for Peace.

Our Lady, the Queen of Peace, asked us to read this Scripture every Thursday. I think it has to relate to our times and the many anxieties that we are going through because of financial conditions. Many are suffering because of unemployment and low wages, high medical bills, the cost of living, expensive homes and rent, etc., etc. God has the answer right here in this passage of the New Testament. It has helped me to trust God more in our daily needs and rely on His Divine Providence through the graces given to us from the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pray, Pray, Pray, Our Lady says over and over, to remind us that it is through prayer that we will receive the gifts of God and have peace in our hearts!  

Scripture: Matthew 6:24-34

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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