Thursday of the Fifth Week in Lent

It is always a question of a moment, for the pain which is has passed is no longer, and who would be so foolish as to concern oneself with future pain. -- Translation of an old football coach’s admonition that I get out there and realize “ I didn’t know the difference between pain and injury.”

To answer my coaches question (all together now!): We would.So much of our time and life is wasted fretting over horrors that never occur — or if they do occur, don’t seem quite as terrible as we thought they would be. And what about all that bad stuff that just hits us out of the blue? Should we set aside sufficient time time to worry about that too? Worrying has got to be the most useless emotions around. It does nothing constructive — although in our hearts, we somehow feel that worrying about things might prevent them from happening. In reality, worrying about life prevents joy from happening. Let go of the pain. It does not help. Just let it go.

Webb