Heather Pound

i picked up a habit along the way

of spending too much time worrying

about things completely out of my control.

this i found to be rather tiring, to say the least,

until a very smart lady told me to

write down my fears on a piece of paper,

one at a time. just get them out.

then slip them in a special box and put that

on a shelf. and when the same

worry comes up again, look at the

box and know that the worry

doesn’t live inside you anymore,

you have put it in the box, paper prayers.

then every once in a while, open the box

and read of your fears. more often than not

those nagging worries were insignificant

and have worked out just fine on their own

but definitely without my ‘expert’ involvement,

and i have lived lighter and slept a lot better, too.

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