Last night I was watching Smash, a new show that I’ve really enjoyed this season. It was nice to see a show not about crime and punishment or housewives. It was nice to see a theater setting instead of a hospital. All in all, it kept my interest to the point that I DVR’d it so as not to miss an episode. That’s highly unusual for me, as I DVR very few shows, and that is the barometer I use to rate my level of enjoyment of yet another network creation.
Smash took a turn last night, one that, somehow I never expected. The one character invited the theater cast to his church for a Sunday service, in which both he and Katherine McPhee (whom I’m glad to see finally being able to showcase her talent), performed. It was the song they performed that got my attention. The song was called “Just Stand”. The line that reverberated in my brain for the last 24 hours is:
“When you’ve done all you possibly can, then just stand.”
What a line of hope. Just stand.
When you’ve said all there is to say, done all there is to do, written all the words there are to write, analyzed all there is to analyze, walked all the roads there are to walk, driven all the miles there were to drive, asked all the questions that could be asked, prayed all the prayers there were to pray, cried all the tears there were to cry…you might think, I’m now at the end of my rope. There is no more to do. You’ve exhausted all the possibilities on this earth, physically, within your reach, and are standing at the edge of helplessness and despair. This song provides the answer. The one thing you didn’t try.
Just stand.
Two words. So simple. Just stand with no expectations or thoughts. Just stand and trust the process. Give your God full, unencumbered reign. Don’t expect Him to “do this or maybe that”. Don’t do, don’t think, don’t say, don’t ask, or don’t even pray anything.
Just stand.
And so, as another day goes by, for the second time in two days a few simple words changed the way I do business in this life, and …I have written.
Photo: Now I know why I had my husband take this photo on Sunday. Taken at the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake in upstate NY on our MG joyride. I remember this chair from numerous school field trips.
This meant a lot in the middle of this night. Love it. And, I am standing another day.