People who are always worrying about the future – what will happen, what will happen – are not meant for the spiritual life. The present moment is a heavy enough load for you to carry. As soon as you put it on your shoulders, you are already collapsing. When you worry about what will happen in the future if you do not have money, on the strength of your imagination-power you are only increasing the weight that you have to carry now. You think about what will happen in five years, in ten years, in twenty years. Three hundred and sixty-five days are multiplied by all your worries or fantasies. You can add bricks to the load or you can add beautiful, golden statues, but whether you add worries or fantasies, still the load you have to carry today becomes heavier.
Instead of making your load heavier, just go to God and give Him what you have, which is your heart’s cry. Then He will give you what He has and what He is for you: His Smile. Your heart’s inner cry and God’s Satisfaction-Smile must go together. Then only will you be happy. Otherwise, all the fantasies about the future that you are cherishing, all the castles in the air that you are building, will never make you happy. The present is enough to deal with. If you start worrying about your finances and other things in the future, you shall only ruin whatever little spiritual aspiration you already have.
Your prayer should not be for money but for God: “I am alive today only because of my heart’s cry for You. Today You have given me the opportunity to pray to You and to love You. I am so grateful. If it is Your Will, tomorrow You will give me again the same aspiration and love for You, and my spiritual life shall remain alive tomorrow.”
Sri Chinmoy, "Life's Rivulets", Madal Bal, Czech Republic, 16 January 1994.