Simple Solutions

TODAY'S QUOTE:
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

God won't wrestle us for control of any situation. If we give Him all our negative emotions, along with the dilemma which is inspiring our suffering... well our next step is very simple. Or it should be. Staying out of His way ought to be easy, but it never is. Once we've struggled without relief the only way to put a stop to the agony is to lay it down and trust that Father knows best.

If it were a hot stove we'd stop touching it a lot quicker, and the wounding would be easily healed. Pain control is much better served if we act before it drives us to our knees, while heartache has to put us there before we begin treating it in the only sure way for a healthy recovery.

It's a total waste of emotion and energy to attempt the handing it over without a firm commitment to release our strangle hold. If we won't let go, then how can He do anything except honor our free-will. The best solutions begin with our altering our attitude toward whatever is causing the agony. If I get to this point I've already done everything I can think of for a final solution.

Some burdens aren't really ours to carry... they belong on other shoulders. To reassign the load all we have to do is place it in the only hands with the power to set it in its rightful place. Trust me, He knows where the baggage belongs. But first we have to stop feeling responsible and cease trying to save others from their own hard knock lessons.

I've noticed that I often have to give it up several times before my hands are truly out of the way. Admitting that fractured feelings can be made whole by altering our connection to them is a big step in the right direction. There is no way to avoid runaway emotions, but taming them is possible. Feel it.... Forgive it.... Fill that space with something positive. Think about it.... Let it ride.... Then YOU decide!!!