I was once told “we are all marionettes on strings......swinging our way through this life on a path set ahead for us....and no matter what we do or how hard we try to do things our way ... we will always follow that road made for us.”
It is our idea that we must do things our way that gets us in trouble .... and certainly it is our idea that we know what is best for others that gets us in trouble.
I don't know what is best for me ... how can I possibly know what is best for anyone else?
The best we can do for ourselves and those around us… is to be a friend ... encouraging always, no matter what situation we may find ourselves, or someone we know, in at any moment.
Encouragement always helps to bring the swinging down.... to slow it to where it glides gently in the center ... where we can find calm and peace for a moment or two... till another thought or incident causes the swinging to begin again.
It is good to know that because of the strings.... we will never swing too far ... unless of course the strings break.
There comes again the word trust.
Trust that whoever holds the strings will never allow them to break... no matter how hard we must swing them.
