God doesn’t give you more than you can handle. This was a motto I believed for as many years as I remember having memory. So, any time I was in difficult situations, feeling overwhelmed or at a loss I would think: I ‘should’ be able to handle this because God obviously thinks I can or this wouldn’t be happening. If there’s any fault, weakness or mistake going on it most certainly must be with me. And Lord knows, making mistakes, appearing weak or having faults should be avoided at all costs.
Crap! It is all crap! True freedom happens when and only when I realize that I can’t know what I don’t know. Every experience is ‘good.’ Every instance is for learning and discovering. When I go along thinking ‘oh, I’ve done this before, I can ‘handle’ it,’ I am immediately shutting off anything that might be new or interesting. By not handling it the way I have a million times before I may find a different way of doing it. A better way of doing it. A profound way of doing it. Also trying to apply past experience to a new situation shuts down the possibility of creativity, inspiration and learning.
In so many situations I had never been in before I acted as if I knew what I was doing but was terrified the whole time of making a mistake, of looking foolish, of being found out that I didn’t know what I was doing. Fake it til you make it. More and more I am able to be o.k. with not knowing. To admit that I don’t know. To not step in and handle it immediately.
Miraculous things are beginning to happen, I believe, because I am open to experiencing something new. I’m willing to tap into the not knowing, so things I don’t know can surface. Ya know? My previous modem of operation was to decide the desired outcome, pick a goal, then figure out the steps to get there. And then work real, real hard to make it happen. Now, I get a feeling, a notion, an actual ‘inspiration’ and I think, ‘I wonder what this will lead to?’ Inspiration has room in my life, now that the plans have been laid aside.
God absolutely gives me things I can’t handle so I can grow, learn, experience and be alive!
How are you handling things?
Crap! It is all crap! True freedom happens when and only when I realize that I can’t know what I don’t know. Every experience is ‘good.’ Every instance is for learning and discovering. When I go along thinking ‘oh, I’ve done this before, I can ‘handle’ it,’ I am immediately shutting off anything that might be new or interesting. By not handling it the way I have a million times before I may find a different way of doing it. A better way of doing it. A profound way of doing it. Also trying to apply past experience to a new situation shuts down the possibility of creativity, inspiration and learning.
In so many situations I had never been in before I acted as if I knew what I was doing but was terrified the whole time of making a mistake, of looking foolish, of being found out that I didn’t know what I was doing. Fake it til you make it. More and more I am able to be o.k. with not knowing. To admit that I don’t know. To not step in and handle it immediately.
Miraculous things are beginning to happen, I believe, because I am open to experiencing something new. I’m willing to tap into the not knowing, so things I don’t know can surface. Ya know? My previous modem of operation was to decide the desired outcome, pick a goal, then figure out the steps to get there. And then work real, real hard to make it happen. Now, I get a feeling, a notion, an actual ‘inspiration’ and I think, ‘I wonder what this will lead to?’ Inspiration has room in my life, now that the plans have been laid aside.
God absolutely gives me things I can’t handle so I can grow, learn, experience and be alive!
How are you handling things?
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