Loosening up

I believe that I am supported and guided in the work I'm doing, and that what I need will be there for me when I need it. But I have to set an intention every single day -- or several times each day -- to honor and live out that belief, because it's so tempting (and easy!) to slip back into my standard control-everything, live-in-fear mode.

I'm also knitting Christmas presents (mostly dishcloths, since that's about my speed). The piece that's on my needles now wasn't looking quite like it should, so I went back to the website I got the pattern from to see what I was doing wrong.

Turns out I am knitting much too tightly, which can distort the look of the project. And the answer to that, I'm afraid, is to loosen my death-grip on the needles! Once I relax and just let the yarn do what it's meant to do, things fall right into place.

Of course, loosening up couldn't possibly apply to any other issues in my life, so I'll just leave it there. ;-) Funny how the universe gets messages across.