40 Days of Letting Go, Letting God
From Release to Embrace
Rule 31
“If you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside. For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather. Through an illness, accident, loss, or fright, one way or another, we are all faced with incidents that teach us how to become less selfish and judgmental and more compassionate and generous. Yet some of us learn the lesson and manage to become milder, while some others end up becoming even harsher than before.“*
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Today we affirm: I am safe and secure in God.
Through an illness, accident, loss, or fright, one way or another, we are all faced with incidents that teach us how to become less selfish and judgmental and more compassionate and generous. Yet some of us learn the lesson and manage to become milder, while some others end up becoming even harsher than before. Rule 31
Once again, I find a strong relationship between today’s Lent message and affirmation and rule. When I way very young, I was playful, fun-loving, funny, bright and curious. Soon, I learnt that the wold I lived in was cruel and vindictive. So, I changed. I was so scared of the world around me that I chose to become harsh, judgmental and a fighter.
During my journey of ‘becoming’, I slowly, slowly becoming milder, kinder and more compassionate. It has been challenging because when I look around I see how groups of people keep on choosing to become harsher and more cruel as a result of challenges, disagreements, differences, etc.
Everyday, I pray that we can start to see that harshness and cruelty only creates more pain because our true nature, our essence is Love which is kindness and compassion.
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.