Me: Hey God.

God: Hello, My love.

Me: The world is completely out of control!

God: I know.  It's such an adventure, right? 

Me: No!  It's like being on a runaway train!  I need to feel like I am in control of my life. 

God: You want to be in control?  

Me: Yes!  

God: You are living on a spinning wet rock of a planet that resides next to a constantly exploding fireball in the middle of an ever-expanding universe that is filled with mysteries beyond your wildest imagination.  

Me: Um, okay....

God: And on this planet that you are hurtling through the great expanse in - you are coexisting with billions of other people who have free-will and their own experiences that shape their perspectives and beliefs.

Me: Yeah...? 

God: And while all this is going on your soul is residing in a physical body that is such a miracle of delicate engineering that at any given moment could produce its last heartbeat.

Me: Right...

God: What is it about your existence that you think you have any control of?

Me: Um…

God: Come on - you know the answer to this.  What can you control?

Me: How kind I am to people?

God:  Yep and one other thing.

Me:  What's that?

God: How kind you are to yourself.  Aside from that - most of everything else is a bit outside of your design.  

Me: This is a bit terrifying...

God: All great adventures are!

          ~ john roedel