Text only print-out -----> Daily Meditation: How does love and freedom create holiness? Feb 19, 2009
LETTING GO
Question of the day: How does "love and freedom" create holiness?
Real holiness doesn’t feel like holiness; it just feels like you’re dying. It feels like you’re losing it. And yet, you’re losing it from the center, from a place where all things are One, where you can joyously, graciously let go of it. You know God’s doing it when you can smile, when you can trust the letting go.
Many of us were taught the no without the yes, the joy. We were trained just to put up with it, to take it on the chin. Saying no to the self does not necessarily please God. When God, by love and freedom, can create a joyous yes inside of you—so much so that you can absorb the no’s—then it’s God’s work
from Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, p. 334, day 345
Current mantra:Let go…let God
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Scott
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im a-tryin' but it's easier said than done!
ReplyDeleteyes, but that's the point isnt it?
ReplyDeletewhat's that tom hanks said in the movie: a league of their own: "...it's supposed to be hard. if it wasn't everybody would be doing it..." he was referring to baseball. not such a stretch when you think of it.
hey, its been too easy, too 'gospel-lite,' too comfortable for too freakin' long! time someone admitted: yeah, giving up one's ego means something -- it means a lot. it means not thinking of ourselves as perfect (or anywhere near it); it means realizing that i can get pissed and that i can use the word 'pissed' or 'hell' or 'fubar' if i want. it means there are NO DOUBLE standards; that we are ALL called to be imitators of God. deal with it!
wsh