HEALING POWER OF POWERLESSNESS

Many years ago...eons it seems...I was gifted with a knowing. The knowing was all about the healing power of powerlessness.

I was told that it is not enough that I love the Lord my God with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my body, with all my brains, but that I must trust that God of my own understanding just as much. And that I can only show to myself that I love my God by living that trust.

I have learned that to live that trust is to come to realize that I cannot do that which has been given me to do. I cannot fix any problem of my own making or of yours. I can justify it. I can excuse my part in it. I can even forgive you your part in it...but it is only by crashing and burning by/through my own efforts that I am forced to acknowledge my own powerlessness. There. Right there is the invitation for the higher power to rush in with the healing balm of acceptance. In that instant flash of realization, our skein of tangled worms is unraveled, cleaned up...for the benefit of all concerned.

And we may never know it. Or, more to the point, we may never believe it.

We need only gratefully accept that God has it, without knowing the how of it, and we will walk free in our own mind. If we continue to live in our reasoning mind, however, worrying and wondering, we will continue to live in our own blame and shame.

Loose it and let it go.

Thank you.