Lean back. Forget about what’s on your mind. Let your mind be free and your heart full. Life is not an ogre that you must run away from. Life stirs your heart. Let life stir your heart clockwise, not counterclockwise.
Life may keep you on your toes, yet life succors you. You may often feel that life is after you, and you wish life would mind its own business and be on the sidelines. The truth is that you are on the sidelines. You just haven’t learned this. Although you do set up your life and point it in certain directions, life isn’t for you to boss around. Life is not meant to be a call to arms. Life accommodates you as much as it can. Even when you feel steamrolled or railroaded, life isn’t steamrolling you or railroading you. It’s just that life has a different agenda from yours. In a manner of speaking, you are not meant to take life personally.
If you did not take life so personally, you would not be so fraught about life. There doesn’t seem to be any end to what you take on to worry about in life.
Life flows, beloveds, yet not always merrily merrily down the stream as you would like. What would you do with your life if you were not fighting it? The idea of fighting life seems preposterous, for then you board up your life. Put down your fists. Stop gritting your teeth. Life may be a challenge, yet it is not for you to challenge life. It is not for you to be life’s opponent. Use your energy otherwise. Don’t always be batting the ball back, nor are you always to be running away from life as though you are a fugitive. Give life a chance. It’s not for you to ram your way through life. You paddle your own canoe no matter in which direction life takes you. Ride the waves! Be a good surfer in life in the world. Be active, yet don’t fight holy wars in your name.
You are going to get through life. If life were an orange and if you only eat the peel, you might think that an orange isn’t as pleasant as you had heard oranges were supposed to be. Go a little further, and the sweet juice of an orange will fill you with its sweetness. An orange is more than its peel, and life is more than what occurs in it. Give life a chance. You don’t yet know where life is taking you. This is how life is. Life is always taking you closer to Me.
Life doesn’t always do your bidding, that’s for certain. Yet, honestly, do you really know what your bidding is? If life handed you a menu, would you know what you would want or only what you don’t want? Oh, of course, in general, you want health, wealth, and happiness. You want freedom, and you want a mate of your dreams, yet what do you want to have happen now in the stream you find yourself moving in?
Life is your responsibility because how you react to life may impinge on what occurs next. Life is not quite so simplistic that it will unilaterally bounce off your responses, yet your reactions make a difference. Sometimes your reactions to life keep it stuck where it is. Hang fire when it comes to life. See into life. Ride the rapids. While you’re racing along, be a good sport.
You don’t yet know what is around the corner. The world could be waiting for you and meet you with a happy: “Surprise!” Why not?