When Your Plans Run Out
On a verse in Tehillim, the Rizhiner taught that Hashem sends salvation only after a person has no plan left, because with Him nothing is impossible.
David asks in Tehillim how long he must set counsels in his soul while his enemy rises over him. The Rizhiner read the verse as a description of how rescue comes. As long as a person is still making plans in his own mind and some plan remains, Hashem does not send the salvation. Once no plan is left at all, Hashem sends it. Yismach Yisroel cites this when explaining Yehudah's approach to Yosef: Yehudah had pledged himself and his brothers to slavery, so he had no way out, yet he still came forward and prayed. Yismach Yisroel gives the reason: Hashem is without end and with Him nothing is impossible. A person who has reached the end of his own cleverness has reached the beginning of real trust.
Source: Yismach Yisroel (R' Yerachmiel Yisroel Yitzchok Danziger of Alexander), Vayigash, maamar 7, on Tehillim 13:3 and Bereishis 44:18, cited in the name of R' Yisrael of Ruzhin
Choose one worry where you have been going around and around, making plans, checking every angle and rehearsing conversations. Set aside five quiet minutes today. Write down what you can do, do the part that is truly yours, and then say plainly to Hashem that the rest is in His hands. You are not giving up responsibility. You are making room for help that comes from beyond your own thinking, which is the kind the Rizhiner said arrives when plans have run dry.