Just Keep Swimming

A friend recently pointed out that my current life's mantra is: One Step at a Time. 
I've just seen over and over how there's the potential to get freaked out and start worrying over the "what if's" of the future when things start to get crazy and seemingly start spinning out of control.  I've had to remind myself (and certain friends) to not get ahead of God.  To slow down.  To breathe.  To trust that God will continue to be faithful one step at a time.

Jesus speaks directly to this point in Matthew: 

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?  Look 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?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If 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?  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.

God's got your life under control.  He's got your future under control.  He's got your current chaos under control.  We're just responsible for today and how we respond in the moment.  We're responsible for stepping up and acting on God's promptings as we recognize them.  We're responsible for following God's leading day by day.  One step at a time. 

Funny.  It reminds me of Dory's philosophy in Finding Nemo.  What do you do when life gets you down?  Just keep swimming.  Just keep swimming.  Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.  And it goes a little something like this...

And yes, I hope you have the song stuck in your head now.  :-)