For Today: February 3rd

The right way to pray for the answer to all your problems is to feel and know that the Indwelling God knows only the answer.  Because this is true, you will know the answer and recall the truth: God never faileth.

Joseph Murphy

When I know beyond question that some problem of mine is being taken care of, what do I do?  I relax.  I stop chasing after a solution.  I do the daily tasks that are in front of me to do, giving each one a hundred percent of my attention and energy.  There is no need to go back and pick up the problem and worry it some more, like a dog with a bone.

In the same way, I know that when I am willing to turn over a difficulty to my Higher Power, the answer will become known to me.

For Today:  I give my problems to God with absolute confidence that solutions are on the way.

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When I face a problem with no apparent solution, I turn it over to God in the form of prayer.  Then I sit back and wait for the answer to be revealed to me.  I have never NOT gotten an answer, in one form or another.  

One time, recently, I prayed & prayed over a problem.........what action to take with my elderly Mother's health situation.  Nothing came to me..........no answer revealed itself.  Finally, I realized what the answer was: do nothing.   In that particular case, the answer, though clear enough, took a while to take shape. 


Then again, about 3 weeks ago, I faced another dilemma with Mom; she was coughing a lot since coming down with what appeared to be a cold.  I heard myself telling her to go to Walgreens & buy some Mucinex.  No sooner did the words leave my mouth when it struck me..........What do I know about her health situation? Nothing, that's what.


So I prayed & asked God to guide and direct me to an answer.  What immediately popped into my head was.........call your son and daughter (who were off from work/school that day) and have them take Mom over to Urgent Care right away.  

 2 hours later, the tests at Urgent Care revealed my Mom's lungs were filled with pulmonary emboli......lots of little blood clots that required immediate action.  An ambulance transported her to the hospital where she remained for 5 days.

Asking God to guide & direct me to the right answer literally saved my Mother's life.  The doctor's at Urgent Care said she would have died in no time without proper medical care & blood thinners to prevent those clots from growing larger!


When I received His message to go to Urgent Care, I questioned it: seemed a bit over-dramatic, didn't it? Oh, they'll make a federal case out of a common cold and present Medicare with a bill for thousands, for no good reason. Yada yada.  But..............I took God's advice anyway, in spite of my doubt.


When I ask God for help, it comes.  Every. Single. Time.


Why, then, can I not ask His help with my compulsion to overeat? 

I can, I do, and I thrive because of it.


For today, I put my life in God's hands, knowing the outcome is exactly as it's intended to be.