"I think anxiety is very interesting," observed Amy, eating sugar pensively.
The girls couldn't help laughing, and felt better for it, though Meg shook her head at the young lady who could find consolation in a sugar bowl.
-Little Women, chapter XVI
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Alas. Too many of us (particularly women methinks?) can "find consolation in a sugar bowl." My sugar bowl usually consists of chocolate-covered espresso beans, ice cream, and jelly. Yes, jelly.
Such consolation doesn't last long though.
This is much more effective:
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
-Psalm 46
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Not that a bit of sugar is out of place. Oh no. Just not as a source of consolation!
