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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Letting Go of Understanding

I sign up for these little daily readings and the one below seemed to be just for me. Actually, I'm certain that you'll probably be able to relate in some way, also.

"All of us who seek to be conscious and aware regard our experiences as teachers, and we try to discern what lessons we are learning from the things that happen in our lives. Sometimes the lesson is very clear from the get-go, and other times we have to really search to understand the deeper meaning behind some event. While this search often yields results, there also comes a point in the search where what we really need to do is move forward. It is possible that we are not meant to know the deeper meaning of certain occurrences. Answers may come later in our lives, or they may come as a result of letting go, or they may never come. Sometimes we are just playing a necessary part in a process with a result larger than we can understand. It may have very little to do with us personally, and while that can be hard to understand, it can also free us from overthinking the matter."

Wow. There are several things/people in my life that I need to "let go" of and stop trying to "understand." I believe that as human beings, we often have such a curiousity to just know and understand as if we were entitled. Oftentimes, however, the situation isn't really for us to understand: sickness, illness, tragedy, death, loss, difficult relationships. If we were told "why" would we really be able to wrap our minds around it all or is it all too big for us to even fathom? I, personally, believe the latter and have decided to continue to work on the "let go" phase of my life.