That says it all!
My life has been pretty chaotic lately. I seem to have way too many balls in the air. Our van died, so we have been actively searching for a car. We have a program at church that I am a part of, that requires a bunch of writing as well as the cooperation of ten teenagers. Our wireless router is on its last leg and keeps knocking us offline. Needless to say I know less than nothing about wireless routers. We are looking at doing a mission trip and rounding up the aforementioned teenagers for a specific date is challenging to say the least.
Now all of those things are no big deal on their own. None of them qualify as even close to a tragedy. In fact, some of them are good things. The mission trip possibility came about when the foreman on my daughter’s project last year, reached out to her through text and asked her if she was coming back. He’s a Godly man and left a permanent imprint on her heart. She really wants to go. I’m thankful beyond words for adults like that in my children’s lives.
But, at the moment, I’m really struggling with the juggling. As I was talking to my hubby about it yesterday, we finally agreed that God’s hands were all in our current chaos and we need to just let it all go and stop worrying about how it all will come together.
I’ve no doubt whatsoever that it will come together, and at this point, I can’t wait to see how it all fits.
There’s a certain peace that comes from admitting that we are powerless over most of life’s circumstances and sometimes I feel like God allows things to pile up until we get to the point where we readily admit we can’t fix it all or handle it all alone.
But, He can. He’s the Divine Juggler and He can turn any situation no matter how chaotic, into good for His glory.
I was talking to a friend of mine recently whose daughter attended an AA meeting with a friend of hers in recovery. She told her mom it was the closest she had ever felt to God. I found that intriguing and looked up the Twelve Step Program.
It was pretty powerful stuff. The first one was admitting, “We were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable.” I don’t know about you, but I could replace alcohol with life’s struggles sometimes or even daily stress and it would be a true statement for me.
Next was, “We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” I could fill in God for power here and completely agree. Sanity and peace go hand-in-hand in my book.
The third one was about turning their will and life over to God. I won’t go through all of them, but it was a really good read. It’s no surprise to me that AA works and has been around for so long.
Members of AA seem to grasp the same thing that we all struggle with, and that is simply that we are not in control, but God is. When we really surrender to that notion, the peace that passes all understanding overflows from us. Now doesn’t that sound fantastic?
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂