TRUST...RELEASE AND LET GO

In Thy Presence is fulness of Joy; at Thy right Hand there are pleasures for evermore. -- Psalm 16:11

Do not seek to realize this fulness of Joy as the result of effort. This cannot be, any more than Joy in a human friend's presence would come as the result of trying to force yourself to like to have that friend with you. -- "God Calling," November 4

There is a fundamental shift in worldview and values -- essentially, a new way of seeing -- which requires a shift in our perception of reality, and that shift is happening now, both as cognitive revolution and spiritual awakening. Nothing is static, and if you try to construct an unchangeable or independent universe for yourself, you will be moving against the now obvious divine plan and direction. -- Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," November 4, 2019, slightly reworked

Were entirely ready to have God remove all of our defects of character, then humbly asked Him to remove them. -- Anonymous, from suggested steps of the twelve-step program

For those of us born to be free of me, yearning to walk free of self in our own head, all of the above form the very how-to of doing just that.

Just consider, each says virtually the same thing. Each tracks back through the years, from biblical times to modern day to this very day. They are each about divorcing ourself from self-determined objectives, or our own opinions, wants and perceived needs, and marrying up with a Higher Power, or the Father that dwells within who does the work.

In short, they are each about the need for those self-determined objectives to be transmuted by God for God...not through our own reasoning-mind efforts of thinking, analyzing, managing, but through spiritual-growth detachment from those reasoning-mind efforts.

And there it is...that is our life's journey: Learning to hug them and kiss them and let them go...them being our family, our friends, our enemies, our defects of character, our.... Face it, if we can name them, we need to release them...and love and laugh.

Thank you.