Tonight I’m reading “Charming Lily” by Fern Michaels. It’s not very well-written, but I am enjoying the storyline. One character, in the midst of his conflict, is very spiritually oriented and uses the phrase “Throw it out to the universe and see what comes back to you.” The two times so far, when his back was absolutely to the wall, that he used this phrase as a means to finding solutions in what seemed to be impossible situations, gave me a good feeling.
He was tied up in the trunk of a car and his captors heard him yell “There! It’s out in the universe! Let them deal with this! I’m done!” His captors came rushing over and asked what he was yelling about. He told them he just threw this whole situation out to the universe and the whole world is coming down on them, he’s done dealing with it and is going to sleep now. Then he promptly rolled over and pretended to sleep as he heard them start to argue among themselves.
I got such peace from that scene. It’s exactly what I do with God. I get my back against the wall and get frustrated and tired of dealing with something, and, I too fling it not into the universe, but up to God. I tell Him to take it and then I, too, turn over and go to sleep. There’s no more of a secure feeling than that – flinging whatever it is up to God, washing my hands of the worry, and falling asleep imagining God working while I’m sleeping.
And so, as another day goes by, even though the book is not well-written, doesn’t pack a wallop to my heart, it still manages to speak to the human spirit, and…I have written.
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