“We talk as if we need to save the world as if everything depends on us. Well, it doesn’t. In the resurrection of Jesus, the world is already saved; the powers of death and darkness have already been vanquished. We only need to live in such a way to show that world that we believe this.” This quote came from William Stringfellow, an American lay theologian, lawyer, and social activist. Fr. Ron Rolheiser writes that what Stringfellow is telling us is what Jesus tried to teach, namely, that the opposite of faith is not so much unbelief and doubt in the existence of God as it is anxiety and fretless worry. The opposite of faith is what Jesus cautions Martha against: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious about many things!” We are not to be anxious about many things. We are in good hands all the time. To say the creed is to have a very particularized, concrete trust, a trust that God has not forgotten about me and my problems and that, despite whatever indications there are to the contrary, God is still in charge and is very concerned with my life and its concrete troubles. In the Garden of Gethsemane, with all the powers of death and darkness closing in on him, just when it seems that God has abandoned him and the earth, Jesus begins his prayer: “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you.” What Jesus is saying is that, despite indications to the contrary, despite the fact that it looks like God is asleep at the switch, God is still in charge, is still Lord of this universe, is still noticing everything, and is still fully in power and worthy of trust. The trouble, though, is that this is hard to do, even when we do believe in a God who is Lord of the universe. Our problem is that we project our limited, selective care onto this God. We fear that God sometimes forgets and does not notice us, that God, like us, is an inadequate Lord of the universe. That is why we get anxious and fret because, like one without faith, we can feel that we are in an unfeeling universe. Remember Mary; she chose to rest in the love of God; we should do no less.