Some days are a “first things first” kind of day. Like when things go so badly, or you’ve been through a rough night, that you throw your hands in the air and say, “I give up. I am powerless. Show me the way.”
I have learned that the key to my serenity on these kinds of days is to let go of any agenda I may have had, to let go of expectations, and to trust that my higher power has everything under control, because certainly, I don’t.
So, I shouldn’t even try. I should just let go, and let God.
And if I don’t have faith, if I don’t believe in God, I can believe in the munificence of Life itself, and know that I can only take care of myself, and hope for the best.
However, I can also pray for faith. Living a life with no faith, I am lost.
Prayer
“Do not look with fear
on the changes and chances of this life;
rather look to them with full faith that as they arise,
God – whose you are – will deliver you out of them.
Do not anticipate what will happen tomorrow.
The same everlasting Father who cares for you today
will take care of you tomorrow and every day.
Either He will shield you from suffering or
He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.”
— Saint Francis De Sales
“Kindle in me, O Lord, the blazing fire of faith
To be the pole-star of my life!”
— Sri Ramakrisha, from “Thou One Without a Second”