"Don't Worry! Be Bambi!"

My two and a half year old daughter is obsesed with Disney movies.  In our house there is a constant stream of Beauty and The Beast and Toy Story and most recently, Bambi.

It had been quite some time since I saw the movie Bambi.  I couldn't help while watching admiring the plants, trees, music and animals.  The original release of Bambi was in 1942.  Animated movies have progressed so much since then, but it was refreshing to sit and watch how masterfully the beauty of nature and music were combined.

As we approach spring, the flowers are beginning to bloom and I see more and more birds feasting at my various bird feeders around the house.  I am reminded of the passes of scripture in Matthew 6 where Jesus is using nature to teach about worrying.  There are so many struggles and challenges in the world today.  Many folks struggle with Financial, Spiritual, Emotional and Relationship issues.  In Matthew, Jesus says:

“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 than food, and the body more 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?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?   “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers 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—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.

Matthew 6:25-34 

So amidst your struggles, as you begin to enjoy the change in the weather, the chirping of the birds, the fluttering of butterflies and the beauty of God's creation.  Don't allow yourself to be consumed with worry.  Consider the detail and care that went into creation - read through the first chapter of Genesis, and be consumed by the knowledge that God created and controls all things and he loves us more than we could ever even imagine!

God not only created us...

"God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

Genesis 1:27