ON THE ACT OF LETTING GO

I awoke with my Soul speaking to me this morning, bringing "new" rues, regrets and remorses. 

These regrets are all about my past unsocialized behavior, causing me to cringe and question my sanity...but without them I would never have received my blinding flash of the obvious: These thoughts are brought by my Soul for my spiritual understanding. 

I am moved almost beyond bearing by my flash that my Soul, not my I See Me ego, is doing my thinking for me.

The assurance that I'm hearing in the right direction...both today's "God Calling" and Easwaran directly address this:

"God Calling," Fullness of Joy. The Joy of Perpetual Guidance. The Joy of knowing that every detail of your lives is planned by Me. 

Easwaran's "Words to Live By," Whenever a stray bit of wrath arises...don't invite that thought in, don't argue with it, simply...withdraw our attention completely from the past....

Then the capper: Fr Richard Rohr in his today's "Daily Meditation," writes, I believe all great spirituality is about letting go. 

Getting backup is a wonderful thing, but doing it? To the reasoning mind, that is like being told, "Just don't think about it." Ah, but the same principle applies...we return our thoughts to God trusting that every detail of our lives is planned by Me. 

Let go. Let go of self-thoughts, invite Self-thoughts. Repeat. Repeatedly.

Thank you.