Life is like trying to make a left turn into two-way traffic. I come to the stop sign and edge my way forward. Cars are coming from my left. I look right and it’s clear but by the time traffic clears to my left, there are cars coming from the right. I am looking both ways waiting for that moment when I can hit the gas and get into my lane. Behind me are two cars whose drivers seem to want me to move but I can’t.  Maybe if I edge forward a bit more. Now I’m too close to the traffic coming from my left. I back up, much to the chagrin of the driver at my rear. And now I’ve added some anger to my anxiety. I see why some folks will only make right turns.

At one point I stop my worrying and think, “I’m just going to sit here and wait until there is a wide-open moment when I won’t hurt myself or anybody else.” And I rest.

Life can be that way. Looking this way and that, worried, frantic, resentful, and so on until….until I decide to stop all my fussing and just ‘be’ still. An opportunity WILL come. I know it. 

Maybe it’s what Jesus meant when he said, ‘I am going to prepare a place for you.” So in the meantime, we don’t have to worry.