Thought For the Day: DON'T WORRY

This is one of the many great quotes we have received from my parents on their mission recently. They sent it to their children as a reminder to not worry, but be happy (with an invitation to whistle the tune -- thanks dad). I offer the following quote from William George Jordan:

"Worry, the Great American Disease: Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health."

"It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named in the death certificate. Worry is mental poison; work is mental food. "Worry is forethought gone to seed. Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. "

"To cure one's self of worry is not an easy task; it is not to be removed in two or three applications of the quack medicine of any cheap philosopher, but it requires only clear, simple, common sense applied to the business of life. Man has no right to waste his own energies, to weaken his own powers and influence, for he has inalienable duties to himself, to his family, to society, [to the Church], and to the world."

Or, as your grandmother would say, "it will all come out in the wash."

SO TRUE.