LOOSE IT AND LET IT GO...DETACH

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. --The Beatitudes, Matthew 5:5

I wonder if that isn't the most questioned of all the blessings set out in The Beatitudes...like, how can meek be a blessing? Truth to tell, my first thought seems always to be from the reasoning mind so ego gets first crack, and my ego Lucy's first thought when "meek" is mentioned is, "Door mat, and no thank you."

Actually, if we only stay in the reasoning mind, it makes sense that the meek shall inherit the earth. All the un-meek will kill each other off so there's nothing left but the meek. And if we remain attached to the reasoning mind, if we never seek higher ground, there won't even be any un-meek left. There will always be someone who is stronger, more clever than the other one which he'll prove by besting the other...and the beat goes on. There it is, the reasoning mind leading us to that which we're trying our level best to avoid...death, or worse, humiliation.

It is only by making our self available to a higher power, that power which we already have within us right this very minute!, that we will ever become willing to take that very first, teensy-tiny step up to a higher plane...a.k.a., divorced from our own ideas. The word quite simply is "detach."

It is on this plane that we find all our thinking has been done for us...its unlikely answers are our perfected world. We find giving over, giving up, giving in brings a solace that we've never experienced before...could not even imagine because our reasoning mind knows naught of it.

No doubt that is why "detach" is suggested so often in spiritual books, sermons, and the like. The instructions are pretty direct: Loose it and let it go.

Thank you.