Each day - for that matter, each moment of every day, we can choose to practice the Presence of God or to practice the presence of problems.

Practicing the problems:

     Thinking and dwelling on the big-ness of the
     problems rather than the big-ness of your
     God.

     Thinking and dwelling on the worst-case
      scenarios rather than what God might be
      doing in the midst of the problem.

     Thinking and dwelling on frantically trying to
      find immediate solutions rather than a God
      who delights in solving the unsolvable
      dilemma.
 
 
Remain in me, and I will remain in you.  A branch cannot produce fruit alone but must remain in the vine.  ~John 15:4

God wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine.  One is an extension of the other.  It’s impossible to tell where one starts the other ends.  The branch isn’t connected only at the moment of bearing fruit.  The gardener doesn’t keep the branches in a box and then, on the day he wants grapes, glue them to the vine.  No, the branch constantly draws nutrition from the vine…