Every instant of life offers you the chance to choose for God, and to rely on His power instead of your own. Relying on your own has never brought you to rest or completion. But when you have chosen for God, it is His power that sustains you. Now do you not need to plot and plan, to go before and behind, to check up, make sure, be proactive, to be engaged in constant, stressful busyness.

 

 

 

 

After you have chosen for God, all burdens, large and small, will be lifted from you. You will see them for what they are, mistaken attempts to control, to bring about an outcome, to cause this, to prevent that. You remember how eagerly you picked each one up, how important it seemed. But there was never an end to any of them; each attempt at control led farther and deeper into a Gordian knot of misery that could never be untangled. This is how it ever is when the ego is in control. The ego has no vested interest in making things go well.

 

Send the ego away

 

Make the decision to live in harmony with the universal.  Would you save yourself from grief, stress and worry of any kind? Or would you have a lifetime of it? The choice is this stark. But it is also easy.

My yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Matthew, 11:30

 

 

Would you not have rest after all your worries, your travails, your endless seeking? You think another partner will make you happy, or an exciting new job, or changes in your location, circumstances and appearance.  Superficial things. You are seeking outside yourself.

If you believe happiness is anywhere but with God, you are condemned to a life of seeking without finding. All that is necessary is to bring the mind back to the eternal, where it already finds peace and joy.

 All those situations that previously gave you worry, stress, or grief, will resolve seemingly of themselves, or fall away, or be transmuted into peace and joy.

 

Let your condition be joy