5/21 Language of Letting Go
 

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

Getting Needs Met

I want to change careers . . . I need a friend . . .I'm ready to be in a relationship . . .

Regularly, we become aware of new needs. We may need to change our behavior with our children. We may need a new couch, love and nurturing, a dollar, or help.

Do not be afraid to recognize a want or need. The birth of a want or need, the temporary frustration from acknowledging a need before it's met, is the start of the cycle of receiving what we want. We follow this by letting go, then receiving that which we want and need. Identifying our needs is preparation for good things to come.

Acknowledging our needs means we are being prepared and drawn to that which will meet them. We can have faith to stand in that place in between.

Today, I will let go of my belief that my needs never get met. I will acknowledge my wants and needs, and then turn them over to my Higher Power. My Higher Power cares, sometimes about the silliest little things, if I do. My wants and needs are not an accident. God created me and all my desires.

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

Thank you for this today Cynay! It was a good choice!

Thanks, Cynay! I needed this today. That in between place is a hard place to be!

You know what's strange. I read this in the book this morning and missed that part. I would have missed it all together if you hadn't posted it here!

Thanks!

I know this is going to sound so dark, and I do recognize the "power of positive thinking", but it's so hard for me to really believe this without thinking it's delusional thinking.

Today I was walking to the store. I saw a dead baby bird on the sidewalk. I waondered what happened to his higher power. That really happened today so this is timely for me.

I would guess that his Higher Power was holding the bird in the palm of his hand....

Sometimes I believe death is more mercful then living. Dont take that wrong as in "taking" a life.. but more in the release of this life..... That bird will want for nothing today.