So what does it all mean anyway?

As I have mentioned previously, I am not feeling quite as upbeat as I would like to - and as I journaled early this morning, the idea came that being however I am is quite all right.  My life turns in circles and cycles, just as all of our lives do so it seems to me the most loving thing I can do for me, my body, my spirit and my life is to embrace all of it as completely and wholly (and holy) as I can each moment of the day. 

Well, that said . . . now I would like to share with you another one of those treasures I found in my folder marked "CoDA stuff".

Letting Go

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

To "let go" is not to cut myself off, it's the realisation that I can't control another.

To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

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

To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.

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

To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To "let go" is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,

but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To "let go" is not to be protective, it's to permit another to face reality.

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

To "let go" is not to nag, scold or argue,

but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires

but to take each day as it comes, and cherish myself in it.

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

To "let go" is to fear less and love more.

       - Love Unlimited

Gosh, if I really took all those words in and made them part of my spiritual practice each and every day, the shift would be momentous, wouldn't it?  Time to practice what I preach, eh?  And, of course, to say. . .

Thanks for it all!