You Are Not In Control
Some of the most difficult life lessons to learn are the ones where you are forced to reckon with the truth that you are not in charge of a lot of very important things. For example... You are not in charge of your time. All it takes is one crisis and you'll find that what you thought was your time wasn't yours at all. You are not in charge of the outcomes. Try as you might, you aren't going to be able to make everything turn out exactly the way you want it to--no matter what it is. You are not in charge of the actions of others. If you've ever been a car accident caused by someone else, you know what I'm talking about here. We try so hard to be in charge of everything in our lives, don't we? And we're shocked and surprised when we realize just how out of control we really are. But it's in those moments that we finally admit our frailty and surrender to God and God's plans for us (despi...