We’d rather not have a relationship with uncertainty. Once we make a decision we want things to fall into place, everything to work out. We want to trust in the best outcome…that our relationships will work, the surgery will be successful, our children will graduate, the car will always start, that things will get better.
And then they don’t. Work out. And our trust fades. We lament….but I did everything right, I followed the rules, I really tried. And we start to retreat. Nope, not going to take a chance, not a single risk. Going to stay protected and safe. Well, that’s no way to live, is it?
There is nothing certain in life. This truth calls us to become more comfortable with not knowing. To become less agitated and scared in uncertainty. To recognize this place of uncertainty is where we live most of our life. We don’t have to fear it…we just need to be still, stop stirring the muddy water and let clarity come to us.
We can live in the sea of uncertainty without lamenting or retreating. We can trust clarity, in a single moment. Pause first, let the water clear, and then you’ll know how to move from there.
Trusting.
Paula
