Comedian Carl Hurley tells the story about trying to throw a trash can away.
He said think about it… it’s the one thing you can’t get the garbage man to pick up. He said I set my old rusty garbage can out at the street one morning thinking the garbage man would understand it needed to be thrown away.
But when I came back that afternoon the can was stacked up with the rest of my empty trash cans. Well the next week I put it out again and this time I turned it upside down, so they could see the bottom had several holes in it and it needed thrown away. When I came home it was stacked up next to the empty cans again.
The next week I took a sledgehammer and beat the can up pretty good and left it out front… but when I came home not only was it stacked up next to the other empty cans but the garbage man had actually tried to beat it back into shape for me.
So he said finally I did the only thing I could, I went to the hardware store and bought a heavy duty chain and padlock and chained the old can to a large tree in my front yard. And sure enough, that night somebody stole it.
You know guys I think worry is a lot like that old trash can. We know we need to get rid of it… but it’s easier said than done. We seem to have this false notion that if we worry about it then we’ll still be in control of it and if we are in control of it then everything will be okay. The fear of losing control of our situation or circumstance can cause all kinds of unhealthy emotions.
Source : sermoncenral.com