Weeds Keep on Talking

A slight breeze blew through the yard just about then, rustling the bottom of my skirt and lifting my hair back from my neck.  The birds still sang and the freshly white rock garden shone a little brighter in the sun. 

And across the yard blew the fuzzy puffs of a seeding dandelion.  One clump of the puffy seeds blew directly in front of me and I reached out to grab it.  I held the wad of weeds-in-the making in my clenched fist and rolled my eyes.  Let that sucker go and I’d have even more weeds to clean up in a far shorter amount of time than I wanted to think about!  But apparently God was not done teaching lessons yet, and His next object of choice was a dandelion wad.

Let go.

I opened my hand and prepared to toss the white fuzzies onto the porch next to me, but the breeze kicked up again and they simply flew out of my hand and surprisingly far from me before they fell to the ground.

Okay. What was that all about?

Now that you learned all the lessons through the weeds, I want to show you how to rid yourself of the fear that consumes you so that your life does not become more infested by the weeds of fear.  Just let go.  That’s all I’m asking you to do.  When you get scared, just let go.  Just open your hand – literally if you have to – and let go.

Surely it could not be that easy.  There was no way.  Just take an all consuming, gripping fear, and release it?  Just open my hand and – poof! – away it flies like a dandelion puff?  Right.  Like that works.

But I sensed that “just releasing it” was very much what God wanted me to do, so I nodded, walked back through the chain link gate and returned to work.  Later that day, I felt a familiar anxiety coming on.  I might be single forever.  There was no possible open option in my life.  What was I to do? 

Then I remembered.  Just open your hand – literally if you have to – and let go.  And so I did.  Sitting at my desk in my office, I opened my hand and said, Take it, God.  Take this fear.  Calm my heart.  Remind me that there is at least one more single man somewhere out there in the world. 

Immediately a calm fell over me.  I admit that I threw a surprised glance Heavenward.  What do you know?  It works!!