"Letting Go"

 

I recently came across this paper on Letting Go.  I can't remember
where I got it, but I typed on a typewriter, before I had a
computer!

I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I have.


To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each
day as it comes, and to cherish myself in it.

To let go is not to deny, but to accept.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but
to allow others to affect their destinies.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to try to change another, it's to make the most of myself.

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else.

To let go is to fear less and to live more.

Blessings to all of you

For Today

     "When we are troubled, we may think that our pain will last forever.  Peace of mind appears to be gone for good, and the fact that we have faced and conquered problems in the past is forgotten.
     Overcoming suffering gives us strength.  Our burdens today may seem greater than any we have ever faced, but so is our ability to deal with them.  We learn that when we can do nothing more to improve a situation, there is a process in which we can trust absolutely:  to let go and let God.
     If we find that we can neither change nor accept a certain reality, we let it go for now, knowing that it is the first step in overcoming our misery."

Brookline Reflections

    

I visited my son

and daughter-in-law

in Brookline.

October was a fine time

to visit them

in their new home,

a 1940's building

across from a rose garden.

The visit made me realize that 

I need to see my son as the adult 

man that he is,

And to detach myself from his idyllic

childhood in Alaska.

This realization alone 

was worth the visit...

So I accept...

my age, his age, his wife, their life,

and celebrate changes.