Is it that simple?

Well after being in the hospital most of last week, I have been trying to un-bury myself. Like most people I know to loose a week of your life to anything other than a vacation spot in the sun and the water, etc. Is just not acceptable.
I read this reflection that I receive weekly and it says to keep it simple....Well I want to! But it seems that I have been struggling to get it simple for some time now. Sure it is easy to say what a person needs to do but is doing it that easy? Can it be as simple as just making a statement? Exerts will say that with the right choices the answer to that question is YES...Well I am an expert at managing chaos and multi tasking hasn't seen nothing yet on me and I am jumping up and down screaming that the answer is only yes if you have the money to pay people to do what you need done! So now what?
My father stopped by to check on me today and out of his concern he told me that I have to be the most strong willed person he has ever met in his life... ( a little history before I tell you the rest) they told me recently after my divorce that being a single mom and owning a small farm with horses was not going to be in my future because it just isn't feasible or affordable.....6 years later I am an owner of a 3 acre farm that I call the Sundown Patch! (cause I am always working til sundown on anything and it's too small to call a ranch~~~its just a little patch of God's green earth) I have two beautiful horses, 2 dogs and 2 cats. I also left a High pressured High stressed going nowhere in pay job to enter a man's workforce as a manager of a small pallet company. (again mom and dad were a little skeptical) now I own it! Like I needed that pressure, right? well, back to dad and his pep talk. But being strong willed I was also wired a little different then most people. I care entirely to much for my own good, he said. Well, the weird thing is that the company has been under my management for the last 6 years and I have a great crew. They know how to get the job done and they do a great job for me. So taking on the ownership of the company is really just like it was managing it! But the teenage daughter rebellion can put me on the ground faster than anything else in my life. Dad asked me if I had done everything I knew how to do to raise her by myself? and if I thought I had done the best job I could have done. I answered with a yes, But.....he interrupted and said NO Buts....his point....All we have is our Best....no matter the outcome, if we did our very best, that is all we can do and we have to let it go when the outcome is not as we imagined.
Those words have had me in tears off and on today. They are simple but profound. Dad also added that we have to focus on the things we have control over...like enjoying life...my animals...my friends.....I cannot control what others do only how I influence them. He reminded me of some trialsome times when I was a teenager....then with a big smile he told me how proud he was of me and all that I had accomplished and that my daughter one day would be telling me ...Mom I understand now....and it will all be ok.
So, no it may not be simple to just let it go..but it is necessary...and then I realized the hard part is ourselves. To change how we view something or how we allow it to impact us is within our control.

God never promises to remove us from struggles..............he does promise, however to change the way we look at them!

So the thing to remember is to just turn it over to God...which for us control freaks takes a lot of focus and practice, but if we can get a better perspective on it by doing so...and the health doesn't suffer....It can become a way of life that leads to simplistic!