God Can - literally

I've told two people about my God Can in the last 3 days so I think I'm supposed to blog about it. Here it is:


It's not pretty. It doesn't have to be. It's my God Can.

Years ago when I was struggling with letting go of all sorts of things and people, a friend suggested I get a God box. The whole idea was that when something was eating away at you, you would write it down on a piece of paper, fold it up and put it in the box, thereby placing it in God's hands. When you start worrying about it all over again, you take it out of the box and hang onto it until you're ready to give it back to God. At that point you place it once again in his hands (the box). Long story short, it just didn't work for me. I complained about it at a meeting one night at which a young man informed me that the problem was I had a box and not a can. I'm thinking, "yeah, right, a can will make the difference". A few days later he brought me the can in the picture above. I decided to give it a try. And you know what? It did make a difference. "I can't. God Can. Let Him." works much better than, "I can't. God Box. Let Him." HA! I love it. Literally. God Can. Let Him.