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Show .'Sufficient Unto the Day gIDNEY M. MAJOR, JR., Washington, D.C., once suffered terrific ter-rific headaches. One day, one struck suddenly with a sharp searing pain directly behind his left eye, accompanied by ex-treme ex-treme nausea and excessive perspiration. The vniy remeay was 10 ue down immediately, take aspirin and "sweat it out." The next day he had another, and by the end of the week he never knew when, day or night, another might strike! Thoroughly alarmed, he consulted doctors and specialists. One said, "There's nothing wrong with you you are just imagining your headaches!" head-aches!" Another said, "I think you are allergic to strawberries!" Another said, "Take out your ton- sils!" And finally, one specialist said, "You know you Just might be losing your mind!" Carnegie Well, he certainly seemed to be going crazy with worry. It looked as if he would lose his job, his career, and possibly his life! One day he talked to one of the staff engineers, his boss we'll call him Mr. Wilson and told hira his trouble, who said, "Sid, I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone not even my wife! Two years ago my doctor told me that I had a bad case of heart trouble that I could die any day! That nearly killed me at once. Then I thought, everyone dies some time. I've just been given a little preview of the date! Why not enjoy each day for the time I have left? As Jesus said, Matthew 6:34: 'Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.' " Sidney took his friend's advice, realizing how petty his problem prob-lem was by comparison and then he faced it. When he did he felt better and thought more clearly, and consulted an eye surgeon who operated on his eye. He has had no more headaches! Now when a problem confronts him he doesn't -give up, but faces his problem; carries on and looks for a solution. |