honeypig

SEPTEMBER 9

You are reading from the book "The Language of Letting Go."

Perspective

Too often, we try to gain a clear perspective before it is time.

That will make us crazy.

We do not always know why things are happening the way they are. We do not always know how a particular relationship will work out. We do not always understand the source of our feelings, why we've been led down a particular path, what is being worked out in us, what we are learning, why we needed to recycle, why we had to wait, why we needed to go through a time of discipline, or why a door closed. How our present circumstances will work into the larger scheme of events is not always clear to us. That is how it needs to be.

Perspective will come in retrospect.

We could strain for hours today for the meaning of something that may come in an instant next year.

Let it go. We can let go of our need to figure things out, to feel in control.

Now is the time to be. To feel. To go through it. To allow things to happen. To learn. To let whatever is being worked out in us take its course.

In hindsight, we will know. It will become clear. For today, being is enough. We have been told that all things shall work out for good in our life. We can trust that to happen, even if we cannot see the place today's events will hold in the larger picture.

Today, I will let things happen without trying to figure everything out. If clarity is not available to me today, I will trust it to come later, in retrospect. I will put simple trust in the truth that all is well, events are unfolding as they should, and all will work out for good in my life - better than I can imagine.

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knowthetriggers

Thanks!

I really needed this today!!

ad0117

Thank you for posting this today! This is something I've been struggling a lot with lately...letting go and letting things happen. It's hard not being in control, especially when you watch someone you love make terrible choices and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Time to let go and trust that everything will work out the way it should.

Kboys

Thanks honeypig. This is a great reminder today.

This is a hard one for me! I want all the answers now!

But it definitely does make me crazy, trying to gain clarity and perspective when it's just not there to be had at the moment.

Have a great day!

Katchie

I'm so glad that I chose to read this today...I needed it greatly. I find myself at a place that I cannot control and do not understand. I will need to read this again before the day is over!

honeypig

I'm there with all of you who said this reading is important for you. I want to be able to understand right away--it's hard to accept that the bumbling and thrashing and stagnating and growing impatient are all necessary for the greater knowledge to be revealed.

Off to thrash some more...hope you've all had a decent day!

Rosalba

'In hindsight, we will know'. YES!

Now I need to stop berating myself for not acting on something I didn't know at the time...

clowny73

ive failed at every relationship ive ever had. I don't see the point in going on anymore. the only thing I see in hindsight is that i'm a waste.