your best effort. But try not to be too anxious or solicitous, that is to say, do not set about your work with restlessness and excitement, and do not give way to bustle and eagerness in what you do. Any form of excitement affects both judgment and reason, and hinders a competent performance of the very task which is making us anxious. Our Lord, rebuking Martha, said, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things” (Lk 10:41). If she had been simply diligent, she would not have been