Day 2 Creative Whispers ~ The Art of Letting Go ~

"Take me to the river...take me to the ground...I want to be delivered...I want to be found."

I'm not sure who wrote that. Maybe I did. Or maybe you did. It's the cry of our heart to be bubbling alive, to be planted and grounded , to be released and free, and to be reborn into what's meant to be. We get inklings, glimpses and tastes of the real.

We had some really bad news today.  We know this isn't the way things are supposed to be.  We know in our heart of hearts that loss isn't meant to happen.  This is one way we know that we aren't meant for this world.  We are created for something much more, as we move through the shadowlands.

And so, there is an Art to Letting Go...acceptance, forgiveness, love and trust, that things will change bit by bit as we practice our art of letting go and letting God handle it.  A friend of mine puts it this way, "Love builds the bridge that trust learns to walk over."   We learn trust by letting go, taking that next step into the air only to meet the solid invisible that holds us.


~ The Art of Letting Go ~

Being is letting go, letting time fall down around you and being present.

The illusion is that our control keeps us safe, but it actually keeps us bound.

The truth is our letting go allows God to hold us, to heal us, and to empower us.  In surrender, our control falls apart into something greater, a larger grace, a boundless place where our souls expand..

Surrender leads us into what we can't fully understand, hence what we cannot control. It is our first step of sanity, to becoming whole. It is our first step of grace, our first step of faith, and our first step of trust.

Surrender is the art of letting go, an art we engage the moment we hit our knees, and lift our eyes; the moment we worship, and surrender ourselves, as we "let go and let God".

Art is a continual practice, that becomes deeper, richer and fuller.

Developing and growing is always progressive, not perfection. What God does is perfect, but we always mess it up. Thank God for grace. We learn and grow.

And as we grow in Christ and Christ in us, our past, present and future begin to converge into our present. The veil of eternity becomes very thin.

How cool is that?

Surrender is a trust fall into the arms of God.

Trust and walk with God in the cool of the day.

Take just one step...right here and now.