Worry. Over and over again....

Worry, over and over again...

My dog has several toys which at times he worries...chewing them until the stuffing comes out piece by piece...or the squeaker is finally silenced, then he drags them around, wanting me to throw the toy for him to fetch over and over again until he at last just lays and worries them again... The more chewed/worried, the better he seems to like them, more like rags at that point than the "nice" toys they started out as...they are "worried" to death...but he picks them out of his toy box the next day and the next to play with and worry over ....

1. wor·ry

/ˈwərē/

verb

    * 1.
give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles: 
"he worried about his soldier sons in the war"
synonyms:
fret, be concerned, be anxious, agonize, overthink, ... more

    * 2.
(of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at, gnaw on, or drag around with the teeth: 
"I found my dog contentedly worrying a bone"

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That sounds like something I do, worry over things, gnawing, chewing, picking up where I left off, wasting my time on rags....as if I enjoy worrying...And I don't ....but I still do it even when I do t want to...

Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

I don't  want to be obsessed with worries as my father was at the end of his life...I want joy to radiate...peace...calmness...contentment...I want my mind to dwell on good, not bad, not wrongs....I want that peace of God...by letting go of those things of which I fret...not overthinking, not over angonizing, but confronting until it is solved or let go of...

Philippians 4:8-9 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Thank YOU that give a way to peace...you help me clear a path to contentment, to come to a conclusion of worrying so much... you take my burdens when I let them go into your capable hands...