Down to Nothing

"When you're down to nothing, God is up to something." - quoted by Pat Quick

We don't direct the play in the drama of life,
for playing God doesn't work. We are his agents,
not the principal. He's the father, we dutiful children.
It's this simple idea that marks the beginning
of the path to freedom. But we get there not from strength
but from the depths of despair, from surrender,
from giving up. We find God's guidance by needing it,
by acknowledging our inability as opposed to One who Can,
and then, in our weakness, God shows his glorious strength
and our ability to become who we could not have imagined
but dreamed of constantly.