Unfolding

To unfold something is to reveal it gradually. We all would like to know what is happening in our life all the time. We all want to look ahead in life and know what is happening. We have a hard time letting life unfold, we want to see the future and know that we will be fine. We forget that God is always in control of our life and we need to live in the quietness of just living. We do not need to force anything or try to make anything happen because there is a time for everything. When we are up and happy, we need to be aware that there will be a time for sadness. When we are in the valley of life, we need to know that we will also be on the mountain soon. God will take us through it all unfolding life day by day. We have all been in God's hands since our creation. Did you, or anyone, have any control over your development in the womb? Yet you turned out just perfect. We had, our parents had, to allow us to be formed. They could not rush it, they could not make it happen on the day they wanted, and they could not control what you would look like when you came out of the womb. God was doing all of it. Yet somehow we think that once we are born we need to take over for the Creator. Today remember a few things:

So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:16

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Remember that you are not "doing" anything, you are being "done." God is unfolding everything in its time. Stop resisting the things that come into your life and start accepting them as it is just time for them. Let your life unfold as God unfolds it. Peace will wash over you.

Namaste'