1:
Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
If God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, even so will he clothe you.
3 Ne 13: 25-30
2:
God cares about fields of grass, God cares about each of us. He clothes the lilies, inviting us to let go of time and let go of control. To stop filling the present with the past and the future. It is all present, all eternal. And it is all in His hands.
3:
Each [seashell] is part of the world. I take them back to the edge of the water, to the earth-pile of ever reusable materials.
Mary Oliver, Long Life
4:
If we apply to the present the point of that desire within us which corresponds to finality, it pierces right through to the eternal. We want the future to be there without ceasing to be the future.
Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace