Someone said: “Control is an illusion!” Ellen Langer, the first woman to become tenured in psychology at Harvard, studied and taught about the illusion of control, where most of us tend to overestimate our ability to control events. In other words, we like to think we are in control, so we do what we must to convince ourselves we are in control, but it is really an illusion or a trick to try and make us feel better.

“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” -Proverbs 16:9

We cannot control the Universe any more than we can control time or the weather. The Universe is unfolding according to the divine plan of God. Any effort we make to try and exercise control can at best or worst, only frustrate and interrupt that plan, which in the long run just ends up costing us.

When we understand and accept that there are some things we can’t control and shouldn’t control, our lives experience the peace we were created for and begin to discover and focus on what we can and should control. We let go of our self will and are free to grab hold of what really matters.

Life is a dance with the Divine and when we learn to allow Divinity to lead, humanity becomes magical and blessed. Stop interfering, let go of the illusion of control, release your grasp on the idea that you and your ego know what is best and learn to relax into the gently unfolding plan of the Divine that brings you peace and blessing to share with others.

The way we know we are getting smarter as we get older is realizing that we don’t know near as much as we thought we did and there is only a small handful of things that we are absolutly sure about and the things that really matter are mostly based on faith.

“Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance…”. -Proverbs 1:5

As I get older, I am realizing that most of what I think I know is almost the exact opposite of what I thought I knew. We get a lot of it backwards and if we are honest, then we begin to understand that a lot of what we thought we had finally put right side up, is the wrong side down.

This world we are living in is trying to convince us that we live in a wasted time and a scary place, but the truth is we live in the most amazing of times and this world is an incredible place filled with miricles.

We need to learn to empty out all of the negative, so that we can open ourselves to all of the positve that is all around us. So the way to begin emptying the negative is by realizing there is so much we don’t know and the real fun in life is learning something new. And the really good news is that this Universe is so infinite that there is always something new to learn.