Turn It Over

Turn It Over

Controlling Behavior may give us the illusion of security. But we will always be safer in the hands of God than under the rule of self-will. God doesn't make mistakes or lead us into destructive behavior.

People, relationships, and situations do not need us to run them. We only make ourselves and others unhappy by insisting that they do. When we accept our true powerlessness and turn all these things over to our Higher Power, we find they sort themselves out. Even if people don't make the choices we would have them make, we can let go and accept it.

We can remember to ask God to take over everything and to give us the serenity to accept his will. Our true serenity lies in accepting God's will over our own.

Taken from A Moment To Reflect: Letting Go by Veronica Ray

Wow. I had a rough day and then picked up this book and it opened to this page. It was like a shot right between the eyes. My rough day consisted of me being disappointed and feeling sorry for myself. But why?, you may ask. I felt as though I had been let down, wronged....but reality showed me that what was really happening was that I was playing God. I planned the outcome and of course things did not turn out like I planned them. So I had to accept that things will happen in God's time and that is the way that they are suppose to be. Period. What this reading said is totally true.....under my self-rule, when things weren't working as I thought they should I started down the path of self-destructive behaviors. Fortunatly for me I have a Higher Power working in my life. First of all I stopped to wash my hands and my eyes glanced across one of the many notes taped to the bathroom mirror. The note my eyes went to says this, "Rex, this is God and I don't need your help today, but thanks for asking." Then I returned to the chair and opened the book and it opened to this page. Okay I get the message God, if I don't want to be disappointed then I need to recognize that I am merely an actor in the play, not the director.