There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it's going to happen.
we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.
Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.
The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
How can we live without the unknown before us?
A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.
Yes, it feels great to plan your life when you believe everything can turn out fine. But what about when you're shown, again and again, how little control you have over anything? No matter what I do to try to fix my future, it doesn't work.
So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.
A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
