Perspective
Too often, we try to gain a clear perspective before it is time.
That will make us crazy.
We do not always know why things are happening the way they are. We do not always know how a particular relationship will work out. We do not always understand the source of our feelings, why we've been led down a particular path, what is being worked out in us, what we are learning, why we needed to recycle, why we had to wait, why we needed to go through a time of discipline, or why a door closed. How our present circumstances will work into the larger scheme of events is not always clear to us. That is how it needs to be.
Perspective will come in retrospect.
We could strain for hours today for the meaning of something that may come in an instant next year.
Let it go. We can let go of our need to figure things out, to feel in control.
Now is the time to be. To feel. To go through it. To allow things to happen. To learn. To let whatever is being worked out in us take its course.
In hindsight, we will know. It will become clear. For today, being is enough. We have been told that all things shall work out for good in our life. We can trust that to happen, even if we cannot see the place today's events will hold in the larger picture.
Today, I will let things happen without trying to figure everything out. If clarity is not available to me today, I will trust it to come later, in retrospect. I will put simple trust in the truth that all is well, events are unfolding as they should, and all will work out for good in my life - better than I can imagine.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
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When I make a choice to Surrender my life, that means I've agreed to stop running the world. I am no longer Large & In Charge, God is. I must be willing to stop controlling everything & everybody, especially myself.
One of the most difficult things for a compulsive overeater to do is to just BE. We tend to want to run, hide, eat, numb ourselves, stay SO busy that we have no time to be alone with our thoughts. Thoughts scare us, because they may conjure up memories of wrong-doings and thereby, bring out FEAR.
The only way OUT of anything is THROUGH it.
If I want to find recovery & maintain it, I must learn how to 'be'...........to sit in a chair & allow time to pass without 'doing' anything at all. I pray and then I clear my head, allowing God's guidance to come through, with NO interference from ME. It is not my job to figure everything out. It IS my job to have faith that all is well and that I'm exactly where I NEED to be right now.
For today, I pray to stop micro-managing my life & the lives of my loved ones. May I be reminded that I am not God. God is God and I am me.
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