A lesson we need to learn each day is the ability to release. We let go of our foolish desires and our needless wants. We watch our children grow and at stages along the way, we must release them. We catch and release the job we thought we really wanted, only to find out it was not the job to which we were called. We come to those difficult times in our lives when someone we love dearly dies, and we have to release our hold, our grip, our certainty that they would outlive us or that nothing bad would ever happen. That is the kind of release that makes us fearful of holding anyone or anything ever again. It's like our hearts are toddlers who get to close to the fire and burn a finger on a hot pan. The child never grabs that pan again. We must release our demands on the world to meet our expectations. We cannot assume that everything and everyone exists for our pleasure, convenience or happiness. Release. Sometimes we have to release ourselves from fear. Stand at the precipice of risk, danger and sheer terror, and jump!
See what happens when we release ourselves and others into the atmospheric weightlessness that is God.
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Thank you for this post, Gail. I copied it into a letter to my nephew, who really needs to hear something like this at this point in his life. (Yes, I gave you credit!) :)
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