Of everything.

One day I will let go of all things.

One day I will come home to you, traveling a final time up the winding pathway into the hills.

One day a last breath will leave me, and I will have deeper peace than ever has been felt.

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Can I let go, moment by moment, and be present today? Can I let go of yesterday’s regrets and tomorrow’s worries, living here with you, now?

For one day that will be my only choice, and the decision will not be mine.

Let me let go, Lord.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I let go, Lord?

Reading:

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” — Rumi

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“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” — Pema Chödrön

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“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” — Colossians 3:2 (KJV)

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My only calling.

In the early dawn, even before the creatures have stirred, there is work to be done. I struggle to set my thoughts aright, trying to align my will with yours. First I must seek to know it.

A stray thought crystallizes my way out of the murk. “Help others.” A simple directive, why had I not heard it earlier?

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And now, new work begins: to follow this path.

Help others.

Let me try, Lord, to the best of my ability.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I truly be of service today?

Reading:

“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“By love serve one another.” — Galatians 5:13 (KJV)

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You made me for a reason.

How better to pray to you, Lord, than to express gratitude for all your works and creation?

Am I not one of your creations, Lord?

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As I seek to grow and become all you would have me be, I come to realize that I am perfectly made. You fashioned me for a purpose, even as I wonder at what it might be.

Let me see and accept myself as I am, Lord — and so accept your will for me.

Thy will be done.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I accept myself?

Reading:

“Becoming oneself is a task never quite finished.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” — Francis de Sales

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“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” — Psalm 139:14 (KJV)

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Yet they both line my road.

Worry is not the same as woe.

I worry over the outcomes of the day. What will happen? What will befall me? What if it is the worst?

My woe responds to the answers to my worry. A calamity befell. The worst happened.

They both line my road.

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Let me stay away from these two terrors, Lord. My road is broad, filled with friends walking along with me. Why drift I over to the edge, just to gnash my teeth? Let me stay here where love-light shines and fellow travelers prop me up.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I stay, untouched, here in the center?

Reading:

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca

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“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” — Julian of Norwich

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“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” — Philippians 4:6 (KJV)

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