Jesus was/is not anxious as we are anxious – worried about stuff. Jesus was/is unhurried.
Imagine that!
Meditation, reflection, sustained focus is something we all can learn, Without it we chase rabbit trails, with it we can find the narrow way; contentment learned through contemplation.
It is your business to learn to be peaceful and safe in God in every situation. Streams in the Desert, October 28
This is the Blessed Life – not anxious to see far in front, nor careful about the next step, not eager to choose the path, nor weighted down with heavy responsibilities of the future, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. Streams in the Desert January 14
Hide thyself by the brook Cherith. 1 Kings 17:3. God’s servants must be taught the value of the hidden life. The man who is to take a high place before his fellows must take a low place before his God. We must not be surprised if sometimes the Father says: “There, child, thou has had enough of this hurry, and publicity, and excitement; get thee hence, and hide thyself by the brook, or in the Cherith of bereavement, or in some solitude from which the crowds have ebbed away.”
Every saintly soul that would wield great power with men must win it in some hidden Cherith. The acquisition of spiritual power is impossible, unless we can hide ourselves from men and from ourselves in some deep gorge where we may absorb the power of the eternal God; as vegetation through long ages absorbed these qualities of sunshine, which it now gives back through burning coal. Streams September 16
I will make all my mountains a way. Isaiah 49:11