Nod to the God(s)

In the movie Tin Cup, Kevin Costner's character is talking to Renee Russo's character and has this in the exchange about the perfect swing...

Roy:  Lowly and slowly, the clubhead is led back, pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body, which turns away from the target, shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. There's a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods...

Molly: A nod to the Gods?

Roy: Yeah, to the gods. That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. 

Today, I was reflecting on how often it is that we think our best solutions come from ourselves... our strength, our intelligence, our efforts.  And, indeed, those ARE important to do.. you must participate.  However, I spent years trying to make true love happen by either wrongly putting efforts into toxic relationships with ex's or by strategy to find the perfect one. Then, when I had run out of hope in my own methods, God pretty much made the most perfect thing in my life happen without any of my strategy or any effort more than just participating in what was developing on its own faster and better than anything I could ever have done.  When Jesus was born, the Bible says God chose rhe foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and this simple perfection shattered my belief that we must make things happen to achieve them.  Sometimes, we just need to give a nod to God and hold on.

So, my message for this blog post is simply to counter some of my prior teaching and say to consider the possibility that maybe God is just waiting for us to fail ENOUGH that He/She can guide us into what they have prepared for our best outcome.