Used Cares
Author Lucretia Hanson noticed a mistake in a caption she was proofreading. Instead of “Used Cars” it read, “Used Cares.” Hanson wrote, “It made me stop short and reflect on how many of our cares are used ones, dredged up from past memories.”
There are the cares of self-pity: the long illness we had, or the unreasonable way people treated us on a certain occasion . . .
Then there are the used cares of regrets. If I had only gone on to school or been more careful in the selection of my life mate.
And, of the unavoidable cares. The accident for which we were not to blame, the germ that laid us low and left a trail of pain for years, the physical weakness we cannot remedy, the separation from loved ones that grieves us and the refusal of someone to forgive us for a hasty word or action. We have used these cares so long that they have depressed us and left us powerless.
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” (1 Peter 5:6-7 KJV)
