watching and learning

PeaceBang, aka the Rev. Dr. Victoria Weinstein, wrote this on Facebook some time back. It’s been sitting in my collection of quotes and I keep coming back to it. I haven’t used it here before because I think the “100% of the time. Never fails” part made me just a little bit uncomfortable. But you know what? I think she’s right.

I have learned something interesting: when things seem to be a tangled mess in some part of my life, the best response is to do absolutely nothing but gather information for awhile and take zero action. While I am doing nothing but , another energy is at work. When I let that energy (God) take the lead, the outcomes are inevitably far better than when I don’t. 100% of the time. Never fails.