control: relinquishing outcomes into God’s hands
Powerful, Joy! Especially love this line: only wants the best for us. There’s nothing
keeping us stuck—apart from a willingness
to become all we can be in the hands of Love
Control is a slippery customer. The more we try to grasp it, the more it slides through our fingers. And yet we still try to hold on to those things we perceive we have a sense of control over.
They can become a mirage of sorts, shapes in a mist made material in our eyes. Control is a longing stemming back to Eden. Our souls seek to cling to it, and in the process we soon discover how ethereal and insubstantial it really is.
Maybe we’ve had control wrested from us in the name of love, leading to a lasting distrust of feeling decidedly out of control. Because it initiates primal fears, makes us nervous to realise we’re not running the show, that deep down there’s some insufficiency within.
Perceived lack and insecurity are strong motivators for tenaciously hanging on to the thin threads of our thoughts, clinging to…
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Michael, I’m honoured by you sharing my words with your readers, and even more by them speaking personally to you. Bless you, kind Brother! 💜