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Show jVf RS. JOE BATIS, 882 Cedar Street, Abilene. Texas, says she often i heard as a child, "Look at those children, not a worry tn the world.' But she remembers that even before she started to school, the worried for fear something would happen to her mother. Her father died when she was eighteen months old. so her mother was her little world. After she started to school, she had other worries. She was afraid she wouldn't pass in her school work. jr5fcm During her sophomore year In high school, the doc- vV tor told her mother that she was going to have a f . . JP nervous breakdown If she did not get away from her W school work for a while. So her mother took her on two week vacation. This helped, but after a few A weeks she fell Into the same old rut of worry, She x I graduated and thus ended that line of worry, didn't f ftJ I seem to help her condition, for when she went to J work for the telephone company she was worried for fear she wouldn't do her work Just right. She had CARNEGIE two nervous breakdowns while working there. Why? Worry! Then the one thing she had feared most, happened. Her mother died. Her world was shattered, but she was made to realize that no matter how much she grieved or worried about her- mother's death, tt would not bring her back. Finally she ran across a book on worry which illustrated so many situations similar to hers, and which showed her how futile It U to worry, that she began thinking differently. Now, when she starts to worry, she breathes a prayer to God to take her worries from her and He has never failed her. |