Turn It Over

My life and times and jobs have taken me close enough to 12-step programs to have heard the phrase, “Turn it over to God” on one or more occasion. Usually, it had to do with some insurmountable (or seeming so) issue of paramount importance at the moment, I had done everything I knew to do to make it different, or better or more tolerable and, at the end I was at a loss. Hense, turning it over seemed a good choice.

Turning it over was supposed to leave it in God’s hands to do what he willed. But what I found is that that was not what my Source ever has in store for me. When I’m asked to “Turn it over”, I’m asked to look at whatever the issue is from another side. So instead of handing the book of my life over to God, he hands it back to me and says, “Well, hey did you ever think of looking at it this way, or could you simply change your perspective here or there.”

That is the gift of today. Perspective. My choice to believe that, for example, this cancer has come for me, not to me. That is current disability is the source of my ability to do things that I would not normally be able to do. What a gift! I choose to make it a gift and no one else has the power to do that in my life. WOW!

So choose door #1 and turn it over. Whatever, it is in your life right now, try to look at it from a different perspective. What that says, very forcefully, is that you are responsible for your happiness and nothing you can do can shake that force.