Why Give Your Troubles to a Goddess?

Sometimes there is a wonderful moment when you finally admit:

“I have absolutely no idea what to do about this.”

The ego hates this, of course. 😄

It would much rather analyse.

Make lists.

Ask six people for advice.

Wake us up at 3.17am with a brilliant new solution.

Then replace it with another one at 3.42.

Anything rather than admit:

I don't know.

But what if not knowing isn't such a terrible place to be?

What if it's actually the moment we become humble enough to ask for help?

This is something I love about the Goddess traditions.

Whatever is troubling you can become an offering.

The relationship you can't sort out.

The decision you can't make.

The worry that keeps circling.

The resentment you know isn't doing you any good but which, frankly, you're not quite ready to relinquish. 😄

The thing you've thought about so much that even you are bored with thinking about it.

Put it on the altar.

Light a candle.

And say:

“Durga Ma, this is way above my pay grade.

I don't know what to do.

Can you please take care of this for me?”

And hand it over.

There's something wonderfully liberating about that.

Because for once, we're admitting that we don't have the answer.

We don't even have to know what the answer should look like.

We can let go.

The ego finds this deeply suspicious.

It doesn't particularly like not knowing.

It really doesn't like asking for help.

And asking for help from an unseen yet ever-present Divine intelligence?

Well...that's enough to give the rational mind a small conniption. 😄

But here's the lovely part.

Nobody else has to know.

Durga Ma can become your secret weapon.

Your private hotline to something much larger than the busy little mind trying desperately to work everything out.

Call it Shakti.

Divine intelligence.

Intuition.

The wisdom that lives within us and yet somehow knows more than our thinking mind does.

I don't mind terribly much what we call it.

What interests me is what happens when we make enough space to hear it.

Because sometimes the answer simply arrives.

A clear No.

A surprising Yes.

Make the phone call.

Wait.

Apologise.

Walk away.

Try again.

And perhaps most importantly, Durga doesn't only bring insight.

She brings the Shakti to act on it.

That's the bit I find fascinating.

The courage appears.

The phone gets picked up.

The boundary gets spoken.

The thing we've been avoiding finally gets done.

Not because we've bullied ourselves into becoming a better person.

But because something inside has shifted.

So perhaps giving your troubles to a Goddess isn't about expecting Durga to magically make life behave itself.

It's something far more intimate.

“I don't know, Durga Ma. You do.

Show me what I need to know—and give me the courage to act when I know it.”

And then...

Hand it over.

Go make a cup of tea.

You've done your bit. 😄