Let Go and Let God

Petty, pathetic little lives mostly wasted…  Ernest Hemingway said that a day spent without going fishing was a waste.  He didn’t say anything about writing. 

Snowed in…  at seventy degrees the imagination said that being snowed in would be a great opportunity to catch up on reading and balance the checkbook, but that doesn’t happen…  just moping around the house imagining doing something else. 

Nelson Mandela spent years of his life in a prison cell while wealthy, self-righteous politicians were calling him a terrorist. 

The clueless scattering of people that was the church in the second century developed legends about Jesus to keep him alive in people’s minds. 

But life doesn’t depend entirely on our plans or our efforts.  Life can come out of that energy, but life can also come out of wasted time and inactivity.  It isn’t about us, it’s about God’s spirit also working in our inactivity, our misdirection, and even our resistance. 

There are times to let go and let God.