40 Days of Letting Go, Letting God
From Release to Embrace
Rule 14
“God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexorably moving toward realization. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.“*
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Today’s affirmation: I reclaim my inner peace.
As I was contemplating on Rule No14 and today’s Lent message, I realized that …
I am not someone who holds grudges. At the same time, when I feel that a relationship holds more anguish that happiness, I let them go. When a relationship does not support me in becoming a better version of myself, I do not want that relationship any more. Not because the other person is at fault in any way, because of my own inner peace.
I keep on reminding myself that every time I feel resentment surfacing towards someone who I perceived had done me wrong, I just let it go. I do not engage any more in the thought or the painful feelings because it does not change the past.
I may think that the other person’s behaviour or words were mean, unkind or even abusive, the fact is that I cannot change someone else’s mind. If they believe that their beliefs and actions are correct, it is not for me to judge them.
I have one choice to make in a situation like that is to love myself enough to say good-bye.
Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexorably moving toward realization. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed.
Today’s rule fits beautifully with allowing myself and others to move in our own pace even if it means that we must walk separate roads.
What did you discover by contemplation on this rule and Lent reading?
in Loving and with many Blessings,
Rev Kudlik
Please note that though I may use ‘him’ or ‘his’ pronouns to talk about God/the Divine, it is only because the English language does not have a gender neutral pronoun. ‘They’ sounds odd to me to use and ‘it’ sounds lifeless.