Ann

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

Being Is Enough

We are not always clear about what we are experiencing, or why.

In the midst of grief, transition, transformation, learning, healing, or discipline - it's difficult to have perspective.

That's because we have not learned the lesson yet. We are in the midst of it. The gift of clarity has not yet arrived.

Our need to control can manifest itself as a need to know exactly what's going on. We cannot always know. Sometimes, we need to let ourselves be and trust that clarity will come later, in retrospect.

If we are confused, that is what we are supposed to be. The confusion is temporary. We shall see. The lesson, the purpose, shall reveal itself - in time, in its own time.

It will all make perfect sense - later.

Today, I will stop straining to know what I don't know, to see what I can't see, to understand what I don't yet understand. I will trust that being is sufficient, and let go of my need to figure things out.

From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.

Ann

As I grew in my recovery I learned to recognize quickly that the lesson would come, clarity would replace my confusion and that everything was okay.

Somewhere along the way, I learned that with each obstacle or setback in my life came a gift, a strangely wrapped gift from God. I never knew just what that gift would be...perhaps a lesson I needed, perhaps an opportunity to change paths, or perhaps just some guidance and light for the path ahead...I never knew, but with each one I grew stonger and wiser and less fearful.

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patchoulli

thank you....again...good morning....Marian

havehope

Needed to hear that this morning, thanks
Terri

teke

thanks for the reminder ann, i think i've been racking my brains, trying to figure some things out and you reminded me that i don't have to do that, i can just live in the day and let what is, be.