How to Make God Laugh

Want to make God laugh?

Show God your Plans

                Bumper Sticker (quoted in Perseverance, Margaret Wheatley)

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do you realize how little we actually control?

Life is “essentially uncontrollable” (Wheatley)

True, we can control what we put in our mouths

what we eat and drink

we can control our thoughts

our responses

even to some degree our actions and reactions

but life happens

and the only control we really have is how

as we experience a particular moment

we feel about, think about, and then respond to that moment

then the world is on to whatever it

is going to do next

and it doesn’t even ask us for permission

being able to understand that our feelings are our feelings

we choose them

and our thoughts (which comes first the thought or the feeling)

which go with those feelings are also ours

give us out point of focus

I am slowly learning that this is where my energy needs to go

not in the futile effort to control every thing

but in the important effort to understand my own thoughts and feelings

and to understand how those realities, which are my realities, I have created them

are driving my choices, and shaping my moments

as has been noted

“if we learn to control ourselves, the entire world around us changes” (Wheatley, 2010, p. 107)