Dear God: Don't Sweat It! I Got Ya Covered

therese i know how hard it is to live in the now i used to think if i didnt pinch save and dont dare miss any work that things would fall apart.but am now realizeing that god can make something out of nothing and some how a quarter tankof gas will get you to work until pay day so i guess we will be all right just have to beleive.

Therese, i agree you rock and if i could do a tenth of what you do in one day id be impressed with myself! but alas, middle age, schizophrenia, depression, have wrinkled my ambitions for a "gracefully growing with age" and active middle years and i must now find myself more willing to pace myself let life have its own designs and "lose my mind a bit in order to find it"

I spent 40 years of beating myself up for not being good enoughg. And if I wasn't beating myself up, then I would call my Dad and he would criticize, cajole, prod, push, and belittle me. I stopped calling Dad.

Now I call my sponsor. She tells me how well im doing. Lately, Therese, Ive been finding feathers, birds feathers, 11 of them exactly. in 14 Days. I now Beat myself with a Feather. Im learning to let go. To Listen to the Wind. His Yoke is Easy and His Burden is Light. My suggestion every once in a while when it gets too much is to Let go and Trust God a bit now and then you may be pleasantly surprised! I'm not saying God is sending me feathers but Im not saying either that he isn't!!! Im willing to Wear the World like a Loose Garment. Good Luck. Youll make the right decision for you.

I am poof positive that panning out your future to the nth degree is an exercise in futility! For many years I diligently contribued an extra 4% of my income to my pension fund o that I could spend my retirement traveling to those places around the world I wanted to see.I taught summer school most summers while manyof my colleagues took vacations to all kinds of places because that augmented my disposable income Well, guess what? Now that retirement is here, my body can no longer climb the craggy shores of Greece to visit the ancient ruins or traverse the sands in the Valley of the Kings! In addition, traveling has become so much more expensive that I STILL don't have enough to get to those places! Friends, on the other hand, have ALREADY BEEN TO THE pARTHENON or walked along the Great Wall of China because they did their traveling in their(then) present. One colleague in particular has traveled to EACH of the seven continents to take part in Earth Watch projects. She still has enough to make ends meet today, but didn't deny herself opportunities that arose along the way. They say if you want to ear G-d laugh, you should tell Him your plans. I've come to realize how true that particular aphorism truly is! Congratulations, T, for learning that lesson in a much shorter space in time. There's nothing wrong, of course, with planning fr the future, but sacrificing the present in homage to what MIGHT come to pass is squandering your here and now! That's a valuable lesson to learn; I just wish I'd had that foresight sooner.