ANSWERLESS...OUR TICKET TO RIDE

I am more and more convinced that the watchword of today's corporate world is whatever works well for the consumer, needs to be "improved." The consumer knows the so-called improvement as the curse for, all but invariably, it ruins the previously well-run product.

I began working on my taxes yesterday. (I am inordinately proud that I, i.e., Turbo Tax, do my own taxes.)  And, yes, the curse has struck again...Turbo Tax has "improved" its system.

I began working on my taxes at 1:00 PM and quit around 2:15 PM...about an hour in. Haven't touched them since. My one and only job now is to silence the what-to-do-what-to-do that wants to live in my head.

As I began my quiet time this morning, I was blessed with my angels bearing the word from my post from yesteryear: If nothing turns us to God faster than fear, then answerless is our ticket to ride, our answered prayer.

With that one sentence, I knew my fear had done its job for my benefit. It allowed me to recall previous like experiences with Turbo Tax with the resulting always right answer for me.

There is a spiritual energy in fear...acknowledging fear of our powerlessness invites the inner Resource that soothes the what-to-do into submission, and we are peaced. Peaced enough that answers from our spiritual taproot can move us forward. Unknowing, we do the next thing, praying thank you all the while, and fear of powerlessness is transmuted for our good. 

When, not if, the perceived problem is solved, we know God's will, God's way is doing for us...always and all ways.

All things work together for our good. -- Romans 8:28

Thank you.