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First we had to shell out $765 to an electrician. Now it's $500 for the car and Gus decided to go on a 6 week eating strike and is not doing good at all so he needs to go to the vet.

Then I find out we're having a blizzard that will decimate all of my beautiful tulips, hyacinths and iris that are trying to make their way out of the ground.

Then I think about my friends who have cancer, lost their babies or can't have them, have a loved one overseas, don't have a job or who all around have much bigger problems and it gives me some perspective.

So here's some pointers straight out of the lips of Jesus, who according to Amanda, may look different than we thought:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like on of these.
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness , all all these things shall be added to you.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.