I walk down the hall and press the green dot on my watch. My step count reads 6306, and I sigh. Because it is late in the day, and I’m still far from my daily goal. Truth is I didn’t get much done today. I wanted to get more accomplished. I intended to check off the to-dos on my list. It just didn’t happen.

As I tie my tennis shoe and head toward the kitchen to make supper, I hear her acronym for rest.

Relax
Everything is as it
Should be
Trust and give thanks.

by Carol Lynn

This kind of rest doesn’t come easy. It is tough to trust that all the stuff I didn’t achieve today is okay. If I’m completely honest, I would say accomplishing helps me feel as if I have a tiny bit of control.

But I don’t.

Checking all the boxes won’t make the wilderness go away or get easier. The simple truth is I’m here in this place, and the only thing needed in this moment and every second moving forward is to trust God’s will and way.

For me it means accepting “everything is as it should be.”

So I let go of making up my steps, of getting busy, of finishing all the things on my list.

Instead,
I choose to give thanks
for the sweet friend who wrote these words
the sound of the lawnmower next door
and the reminder
that God is God
and I am not.

Remember the things I have done in the past.
    For I alone am God!
    I am God, and there is none like me.
Only I can tell you the future
    before it even happens.
Everything I plan will come to pass,
    for I do whatever I wish.
_{Isaiah 46:9-10 NLT}