It was black outside and there was no one on the freeway
that I noticed. But then, I wasn’t noticing anything. I could have been in a
different state or on another planet for that matter! My brain was in a fog!
Earlier in the day, I had received a phone call from my
daughter. She and one of my son’s had left our home in Northern Cal to attend
college in Southern Cal a few weeks previously and she had called to ask me
what to do. She was used to me having all the answers and fixing things. The
doctor’s were recommending that my son have emergency stomach surgery. But for
the first time in my life, I couldn’t fix this. I had no answers! In fact, I
had driven past the airport ½ hr before I realized where I was or where I was
going.
Life wasn’t turning out at all as I had expected. In fact, I
was having many little and not so little earthquakes that were shaking my life. And each time a tremor
appeared… I did my best to shore up the wall that was starting to crash. I
thought that was my job…. To be sure that nothing changed and no one felt any
pain. They were happening so frequently that I even got smart with God saying,
“Is this it…. Is this as good as you can do….. Bring it on!” I was completely
confident that whatever God could deal out, I could fix! It became my full time
job… putting out fires that I blamed God for.
It was that very night that I had a self-defining moment. When
I came back to reality, I noticed the tears streaming down my face, and I cried
out loud “Uncle! I give up! You win! I can’t fix this! I don’t know what’s best
for my son and I don’t know how to pay for it! In fact, I don’t know anything
anymore!”
Eventually, I could see that all God was trying to do through
these little shakes ups in my life was to help me let go…. Free me from the prison I had created for myself… the
impossible job of running the Universe! And that night I began to experience
the freedom of what Letting Go felt
like.
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