It's such a relief to give up our obsession to control, once we learn how. As we do to establish any new routine, we have to practice. In this case, we practice turning people and circumstances over to God. Our first reaction will be the familiar one, always. For so long we thought we had to be in charge. It's no wonder we felt crazy at times. We were trying to assure other people did the right thing, based on our perspective. Usually God, or they, had something else in mind.
Letting God hold the reins gives us a lot of extra time. We can narrow our focus to what we need to do today. And we can use our extra time to pray for the well-being of other people. Our payoff is feeling sane, peaceful, and rested at the end of each day.
I will enjoy the sanity of letting God take care of other people today. I'll just take care of myself.
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
A Super Post!
I am finally starting to do this and it hasn't been easy for me. It does seem to make a difference when I am able to turn it over to Him and let Him deal with other people then it frees up my mind quite a bit. Hopefully, in time, I'll remember to do more of it. Still have that need to control, I guess.
