I belong to a liturgical church, where we’ve developed traditions to enhance and support our spiritual lives.
But life is like my good friend, Fr Mike Hesse once told me, “Life is a bloody mess.” And even on our best days, we don’t even begin to have it all together.
That’s why it’s so important to center ourselves in Christ, and Christ in us.
By our own grit and determination, we can’t truly overcome anything. It might look like it, but we’re just shuffling the chairs around on the Titanic.
So let me give you a short meditation, I hope will be helpful to you in your spiritual journey. Let’s release ourselves to allow God to be God in our lives.
The Art of Letting Go
Being is letting go, letting time fall down around you and being present.
We think our control keeps us safe, but it actually keeps us bound.
The truth is, our letting go allows God to hold us, to heal us, and to empower us.
In surrender, our control falls apart into something greater…a larger grace, a boundless place where our souls expand…
Surrender leads us into what we can’t fully understand, hence what we cannot control. Surrender is our first step of sanity, to becoming a whole person. It’s our first step into grace, our first step of faith, and our first step of trust.
Surrender is the art of letting go. It’s an art we engage in the moment we hit our knees, and lift our eyes; the moment we worship, and surrender ourselves, as we ‘let go and let God.’
Art is a continual practice, that becomes deeper, richer, fuller.
Developing and growing is always a progress, not perfection. What God does is perfect, but we always mess it up. Thank God for Grace. So we can learn and grow.
And as we grow in Christ and Christ in us, our past, present, and future begin to converge into our present. Then the veil of eternity becomes very thin.
And how cool is that? For me, sometimes
Surrender is a trust fall into the arms of God.
So trust and walk with God in the cool of the day.
Start now
Just take one small step…right here…right now.
Our Guest speaker Bob Holmes can be found at: Contemplative Monk.
Picture can be found here.
Thank you for this Bob. This line…”Developing and growing is always a progress, not perfection. What God does is perfect, but we always mess it up”, is so key for me. I came from a long-standing faith tradition that had the mind-set of “growing toward perfection”. The tipping point for my own transformation came when I realized that the perfect God was within me and all the journey toward that realization was not linear but deeper into that reality. No more striving. No more reaching for God way out there. Just the journey of being still and as you poignantly put it, letting go in order to be found. Thank you for penning this truth so artistically (reaching beyond mere words).
Val, The real genius is the balloons picture. That’s absolutely perfect! You’re got an artists eye.
Awesome thought Val. Letting God be God in us. It releases us from our unreal expectations, because we have no idea of the depth and the extent of God’s perfection and holiness.
“Surrender is a trust fall into the arms of God.” Wow! That is beautiful!
Thanks Tricia! I’m blushing.:-)
Beautiful, Bob. You have a way with words! Simple yet so eloquent! When God called you, He knew what He was doing.
Letting go of what eats me inside works only if I hold tight to the Life Line that connects me to Him.
Blessings and light!
Katina, I’m learning from the best. And that’s you. You are such a sweetheart!
Amen Bro. Amen.
Dude, you’re such an awesome soul, you know that?! I love the centered, simple beauty of your thoughts here. Like anyone I truly suck at letting go, of releasing fingers tightly clenched on whatever I feel will keep me in faux happiness. Thanks for inviting us to develop this fine art of letting go. Lord knows, I need to hear this regularly!
Rob, I’m jealous of the guys you’re with. You are such a breath of fresh air!
These are some of the world’s coolest people, Bob. And you’re one of them! And I get to live my life among them. Someone pinch me!