Today's Gift - 08/09/2008

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Today's thought from Hazelden is:Life is a series of letting go's - an "infinite" series of letting go's. All things in life are given us on loan. . . . Once we have learned to let go, we are prepared for whatever life gives us. And death itself is nothing to be feared.-- FoxFor many years, I resisted the concept of letting go. I resisted mostly because I didn't understand what people were talking about. I'd be loudly obsessing about something. "Just let go," they'd say. "Okay," I'd say. Then I'd walk away and wonder what they meant, and mostly how to do it. Soon, I caught on. Letting go is a behavior we can practice each day, whatever the circumstances in our lives. It's a behavior that benefits relationships we want to work. It's a helpful behavior in insane relationships, too. It's a useful tool to use when we really want to bring something or someone into our lives, and in accomplishing our goals. It's a helpful tool to use on outdated behaviors such as low self-esteem and manipulation.Letting go takes the emotional charge, the drama, out of things and restores us to a sense of balance, peace, and spiritual power.Letting go works well on the past and the future. It brings us into today.Paraphrasing the mystic writer Fox, everything that comes, comes to pass. Demystify letting go. It's not as complicated as it sounds. Learning the art of letting go really means learning to calmly let things be.God, help me learn to let go.

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More Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

More Language of Letting Go. Copyright 2000 by Melody Beattie. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of Hazelden.

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