What Rules Your Life?

Amy Wellborn is posting at Beliefnet.  Part of what she wrote today just spoke to me . . . . . no! 
It overwhelmed me.
Reading it brought instant understanding and peace.  I hope it touches you in the same way.
Amy was writing about what Michael (her husband who died recently)  taught her.  Bolding is my emphasis:

Michael was all about freedom in Christ, resisting idol-making, treating nothing else as God in your life except God - that is letting nothing control you, to not be captive by anything - present sin, past sin or a difficult situation.  
What rules your life - that situation...or God? Are you a captive or are you free in Christ, because he has reconciled all things and conquered sin and death?

 He emphasized really believing that God is present in every moment and experience, no matter how strange or wretched and, as he quoted Father Benedict Groeschel in a column he wrote the evening before he died, to embrace a life in which "We have no plans but to be led by God."  He was about moving forward in Christ - with Christ.