The Bliss of Letting Go
The other day I was reading a passage in the Course about living in the present and recalled how for many years it was hard for me to read many of the ideas in the Course. I thought it was impossible to accept them and to live by them. It seemed hard, hard, hard. Now my life gets easier and simpler every day. My “work” is communing with God. I have no problems because I always have the Solution with me. I have a Guide Who leads me through the day. I don’t have to worry about anything because I make no decisions by myself. So what changed?
Over the years I let go of more and more. I let go of values I thought were important; the need to have things my way; the need to be right; “laws” that were supposed to rule the way the world works; people and money and my business and my “life”. I opened my mind. I cultivated a relationship with the Holy Spirit, Who is now my constant Companion. I put my relationship to God front and center in my life.
Each time I let go and let the Holy Spirit in, the relief and rightness and wholeness and security of what I experienced far outstripped whatever I thought holding on would bring me. I learned what was hard was not what the Course was teaching; it was resisting it that was hard. What was hard was the need to be in control, to be right, to have various values and interests and to need to be “doing” all the time.
Have you ever held on to something so tightly with your hand that when you let go your fingers were stiff and sore? But you open your hand fully and flex your fingers and the pain is gone. That is what it is like when you let go of the world. At first it seems painful but the more you open up the greater the relief.
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Over the years I let go of more and more. I let go of values I thought were important; the need to have things my way; the need to be right; “laws” that were supposed to rule the way the world works; people and money and my business and my “life”. I opened my mind. I cultivated a relationship with the Holy Spirit, Who is now my constant Companion. I put my relationship to God front and center in my life.
Each time I let go and let the Holy Spirit in, the relief and rightness and wholeness and security of what I experienced far outstripped whatever I thought holding on would bring me. I learned what was hard was not what the Course was teaching; it was resisting it that was hard. What was hard was the need to be in control, to be right, to have various values and interests and to need to be “doing” all the time.
Have you ever held on to something so tightly with your hand that when you let go your fingers were stiff and sore? But you open your hand fully and flex your fingers and the pain is gone. That is what it is like when you let go of the world. At first it seems painful but the more you open up the greater the relief.
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Now available at www.acimmentor.com: Understanding A Course in Miracles: A Quick Reference for Students.
Comments
But how do I explain this and any subsequent life changes I feel are necessary for me to my family. To them, letting go does not make sense.