Do the next right thing. I have never loved that...I wasn't wild about it when it was "do the next thing" and then somebody "improved" it and added the word "right" which totally invalidated it to my thinking. As far as I am concerned, adding "right" shuts down any possibility of actually doing anything. We just get caught in our own downward spiral of what, exactly, is the right thing to do?
I love the advice I was given: "Do something about something." That's it. Don't fancify it, don't complicate it. Especially don't kid ourselves that we're doing anything, particularly anything productive, when we're all up in our head trying to decide whether the right thing is A or Z...or possibly H. All we'll get done is make ourselves crazier...more undecided.
That's when the best bet is to ask someone...and it really doesn't matter to whom we turn. In reality, even people we're not overly fond of (because they're not overly fond of us, of course) won't deliberately give us bad advice. Mainly because it takes too long to figure which is the worst, which is the best advice to give. So ask and then do. Give ourselves time to ponder, and we're back on that treadmill to the black hole yet again.
It is a comfort to know that just by asking the first available person is asking God...He's everywhere! She's everywhere! It's the detaching from our own reasoning mind, trying to figure it out, that opens the door for God's solution to appear.
The kicker and the deepest growth comes when we do exactly that...having already asked God, asked our friends, our mentor, our next-door neighbor, we simply ask the next available person. And we follow their advice. And the result is so wrong. So OMG what to do, what to do!? THERE...that, too, is God's will.
This is when and where we learn that our reasoning mind's result, which is the best we can imagine, is not for our best according to God. Go with God and sooner or later we realize that we got a way better result than imaginable.
Welcome everything...for there is our angel unaware.
Thank You.
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