DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR LIFE

We used to think that one of the inalienable rights of man was that he should be able to plan both his professional and his private life. This is a thing of the past. The force of circumstances has brought us into a situation where we have to give up being "anxious about tomorrows." But it makes all the difference whether we accept this willingly and in faith or under continual constraint.

For most people, the compulsory abandonment of planning for the future means that they are forced back into living just for the moment, irresponsibly, frivolously, or resignedly; some few dream longingly of better times to come and try to forget the present. We find both these courses equally impossible and there remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find, of living every day as if it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility as though there were to be a great future:
"Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land."

It is a sign from God and a pledge of a fresh start and a great future just when all seems black. Thinking and acting for the sake of the coming generation, but being ready to go any day without fear or anxiety -- that, in practice, is the spirit in which we are forced to live. It is not easy to be brave and keep the spirit alive, but it is imperative.