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I love a new year. I love fresh starts, clean calendars, and a new list of goals to help guide the way. I like the feeling of endless possibility. Yes, this year I would like to read more, write more, and learn to play the piano. I would like to spend more time holding my family and less time worrying about them. I'd like all of these things, but they are not my goals. This year I have one goal, just one resolution.
Recently, my dear friend lost her older brother to a long illness. A family man of faith and a Sergeant Major in the Marine Corp, he liked to use the expression, "Just sit in the truck and don't play with the radio."
We've all heard, "Don't worry be happy" and "Let go and let God," but I like his take best. I understand it to mean, don't try to control everything. Don't get in the middle of it all and muck up the works. There is a plan for me in this universe so trust the journey. Relax.
Sit in the truck and don't play with the radio.
These words are my map for 2015. I aim to internalize the idea that there is a lesson for me in every person, every thing that comes across my path. Each situation will afford me a new opportunity to align myself with God's will, knowing that whatever I might try to push, pull, and orchestrate, God's will is what's going to happen anyway.
Sit in the truck and don't play with the radio.
It's a call to faith. It's the call to action that is about inaction. It's the knowledge that I can stop carrying the weight of the world, it's okay - God and the universe have got this one. Its about trust.
Sit in the truck and don't play with the radio.
This is my wish for you too, my friends. Enjoy this life. Let the water of busyness move around you as it would a rock in a stream. Unclench. It's not all up to you. You are a big deal, but not The Big Deal. In this new year, close your eyes and hear the music.
Sit in the truck and don't play with the radio.
This is beautiful. Such a good reminder of something I need to do a better job with.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Katherine. Happy New Year! Xo
ReplyDeleteThank you my sweet beautiful friend. Randy would be so touched. I adore you and when I stop crying at the beauty of this I'll tell you in person.
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Karen
Love you! xoxo
DeleteThis is really good advice. This part, "You are a big deal, but not The Big Deal." I wish more people could understand that.
ReplyDeleteI hope I can just sit in the truck more this year... :)
Happy new year, Elaine!! Xo
DeleteI have borrowed the line.
ReplyDeleteIs that OK????
Go for it! Xo
DeleteWell timed advice. I was just talking to someone about how my life changed about five years ago, when I let go of outcomes and let the currents take me. This is an affirmation to continue that trust, that flow. Beautiful words from a beautiful friend. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteLove you and Happy New Year, Ann! Xo
ReplyDeleteWhat great advice, Lisa. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Alexia! Xo
DeleteThank you Lisa. I've had to replace a lot of dials. Will try and remember this.
ReplyDeleteAll the best to you and yours for the coming year.
Happiest New Year to You, Lea! Xo
DeleteThat is far better advice than, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
ReplyDeleteIt covers all of the same territory, only better.
Happiest New Year to You, Sir! Xo
ReplyDeleteThat is the best advice I've ever heard.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Mary. Xo
DeleteThank you for this very meaningful post.
ReplyDelete'There is a plan for me in this universe so trust the journey'. So true and I wrote it out for my daughter.
I really love your blog, thank you so much!
Thank you! Happy New Year! Co
DeleteHoly crap this is so perfect! Thank you for your blog in general but especially this post. Happy New Year Lisa!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Happy New Year to you too, Becky! xoxo
DeleteThank you for always bringing to me things I would not have thought about otherwise. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to You, Agnes! xo
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