What to do when you’re anxious about the future

“Though I know not what trials may await me, yet I desire not to be anxious about the future; but rest in firm reliance on the Lord, that whatever he may see fitting to dispense, will be for my good, even as for daily bread.”

— Mary Waring, 1791
Quaker diarist

Rest in firm reliance on Spirit.

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This month’s messages are a collaboration with guest editor Jon Watts, Quaker songwriter, videographer, and founder of Thee Quaker Project (the organization that publishes the Daily Quaker Message). Find out more about Jon.

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  • Mary Waring

    Mary Waring (1760-1805) was an English Quaker diarist. She was neither a minister nor a public figure in the Society of Friends, and her diary is mainly concerned with her inward spiritual struggles. It also offers a glimpse into the life of her meeting at that time, Godalming Quaker Meeting in Surrey.

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