"Give us this day our daily bread."

"You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts,
remembering that God goes with you wherever you go."

ACIM Lesson 41.10

Sir William Osler urged the students at Yale to begin the day with Christ's prayer:

"Give us this day our daily bread."

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all." Sir William Osler

Osler, an inveterate prankster, he wrote several humorous pieces under the pseudonym "Egerton Yorrick Davis." Davis, a prolific writer of letters to medical societies, was purported to be a retired US Army surgeon living in Caughnawauga, Quebec, author of a controversial paper on the obstetrical habits of Native American tribes which was suppressed and unpublished. Osler would enhance Davis' myth by signing Davis' name to hotel registers and medical conference attendance lists; Davis was eventually reported drowned in the Lachine Rapids in 1884.

"One hundred per cent of the fatigue of the sedentary worker in good health is due to psychological factors, by which we mean emotional factors."

Abraham Arden Brill (1874 –1948)
One of America's most distinguished psychiatrists.
The first translator of Freud into English.

Ask yourself these questions, and write down the answers?

1. Do I tend to put off living in the present in order to worry about the future or to yearn for some "magical rose garden over the horizon"?

2. Do I sometimes embitter the present by regretting things that happened in the past-that are over and done with?

3. Do I get up in the morning determined to "Seize the day"-to get the utmost out of these twenty-four hours?

4. Can I get more out of life by "living in day-tight compartments" ?

5. When shall I start to do this? Next week? .. Tomorrow? ... Today?

How To Stop Worrying And Start Living By Dale Carnegie

[ During the past six years that I have been writing this book I have collected hundreds of examples and concrete cases of how men and women conquered fear and worry by prayer. I have in my filing cabinet folders bulging with case histories. ]