All Tangled Up

"Organizing the Tangle" photo by Sally L. Smith

Sometimes my own words ensnare me and I feel trapped...tangled in obligations that I can't possibly complete.  The Bible is very specific when one finds oneself in this situation.  Proverbs, the Book of Wisdom, relates this prescription for entanglement. 

[If] you are trapped
    by your own words, and you are now in the power

 of someone else.

Here is what you should do:

Go and beg for permission

 to call off the agreement.

Do this before you fall asleep
  or even get sleepy.

Save yourself, 

just as a deer or a bird
    

tries to escape
    

from a hunter.

Proverbs 6:2-5 CEV

Go now and start unraveling your tangled mess.