Control is an interesting phenomena; the more we hold on the weaker we get, the more we let go the stronger we get…
The devil loves to try and convince us we can control everything.  He also likes for us to  think the best way to overcome our fears is by being controlling.  Being a control freak takes a lot of work and energy and ends up running counter to how we are built.
Beginning in 1985 I began to see just how much control I didn’t have in my life.
It started with a miscarriage, then the birth of our second son who was born normal and within ten hours was fighting for his life and pretty much given up for being dead, soon to be dead or being a vegetable.
Then a year later my stomach ruptured and I almost died because of how I chose to “control” the pain from the two tragedies above; isolation, work and lots of drugs.
Finally I saw no use in living as I had lost control of everything in my life.
If this isn’t the trail the devil loves to take us on, I don’t know what is.
…and then I surrendered to God and things have never been the same.
Although the past twenty-five and a half years have not been a bed of roses as I’ve continued to encounter “life” situations, it sure has been a more peaceful and joyful ride as I know what I can and cannot control.
Control is a consuming state of being. It is tiring and draining…just where satan wants us to be.
Whereas acceptance of people, places and things we cannot control is a contributive state of being. It creates energy, peace and joy and requires a faith in a higher being…just where God wants us to be.
Let go and let God are the five most powerful words in my vocabulary today.
Control what you can; your spiritual state, attitude, treatment of others and your effort and leave the rest in God’s hands.
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P.E.A.C.E
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
“And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation–some fact of my life–unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment….unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.” From The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, “Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict.” pg. 449, 3rd Edition.
