When you can’t fix it

It’s hard when you can’t fix it.

When you feel you’ve done what you can, you’ve stretched and grown and tried and tried again but your efforts don’t help. Your efforts only seem to make it worse.

Despite that, you keep trying. You feel hopeful. You get discouraged. But you keep going until one day you just have to stop.

It’s hard when you have to face the reality of the situation and understand that acceptance is your only option. That you must exist in a time and space where you can’t do anything but wait.

To be still.

To not give up but to also stop trying to fix it.

The wait is hard. It leaves room for self doubt. It revs you up to think, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING I CAN DO!

But there is nothing you can do.

Except wait.

And rest.

And reflect.

And think.

And give yourself over to the greater power that exists to make all things work together for good.

For your good.

Life doesn’t happen to us, it happens for us.

This is the lesson I’m taking from today.

In His Peace,

Annie