the value of doing nothing

"Never underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,

of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear and not bothering."

Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Thoughts lately have been on the hardest tasks.
Sometimes they are not an act, but a refrain.
Waiting, learning patience.
Biting ones tongue, not expressing ones self (for a change.)
For there is "a time to embrace and a time to refrain" and
"a time to be silent" and "a time to give up."
Not every calling is to do something.
Sometimes it is to fail to do something, to cease to do something.
Sometimes to pry ones fingers away and let go of something.
To remember that nothing we let go of drops to to the ground, at least not unnoticed.
But all is part of more than a plan, a destiny.
And to hang on, to act, could be the most dangerous thing.
May 2010 be God's.
Not yours, not mine. Not for arguing over. Not for the politicians, not for the next generation.
May we all let go. Drop it. Raise our hands, open to Heaven and know for once that He is sovereign and we are small indeed.

e.pleasant Photo by Birdie