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these
wonderfully smooth worry stones are approximately 3 inches by 2 inches
(though
they vary). they are engraved with an inspirational word of
your
choice: love, hope, charity, dream, family, trust, believe,
peace, inspire, faith, harmony, friends. hold them while you
meditate and pray on the topic on the stone or any other topic on your
heart at the time. rub the stone as a method of relaxing your
mind as you hand your worries over to God. they also make a
nice
accent in a plant or fountain or as a paperweight. the stones
come with a card bearing the passage from matthew 6:25-34:
25"Therefore I
tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what
you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more
important than clothes? 26Look
at the
birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable
than they? 27Who of
you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28"And
why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not labor or spin. 29Yet
I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like
one of these. 30If
that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O
you of little faith? 31So
do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or
'What shall we wear?' 32For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows
that you need them. 33But
seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will
be given to you as well. 34Therefore
do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each
day has enough trouble of its own.
worry
stones have sometimes been used by religions that worshipped the rocks
themselves. the stones were said to calm and soothe the
person
who
held them. as christians, we know that stones are part of
God's creation and are not
to be
worshipped or prayed to. we worship the creator, not the
creation.
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