I woke up this morning with the thought, “just take the next step.” When you can’t see the future, just take the next step. When the world feels as though it is falling apart around you, just take the next step. When everything is beautiful and full of love and light, just take the next step. 

That’s all we have anyway. We can’t see into the future, though we plan and scheme and hope and insulate and dream. Our lives belong to God, we have no control. She can only direct us in this moment when we are Empty to Her, now. She can only guide our lives when we are Empty to Her, now.

Just Empty.

The truth is, we cannot know. How can we know how he day will go? Or tomorrow. Or the year. Or our lives. We must open despite the not knowing. We most open into the unknowing.

Just Open.

Only when we are empty and open can we listen to and hear Her.

Just Listen.

We don’t have to understand what we are hearing, we can’t. We don’t have to process and plan or do anything with anything, it is meaningless. We don’t have to do. No struggle, no effort, no try. We only have to surrender and take the next step, trusting it will lead where She wants us to go, which is so much unimaginably greater than our small human can dream for our small human selves.

Just Trust (Her).

Empty. Open. Listen. Trust. And take the next step. 

PS, the trust part is important. So is the surrender.

Amen.

Love, ch