Day 170: The Lesson of the Loose Sand

This morning this statement from Wayne Dyer stuck with me.

"I write without doing. I simply allow ideas to come through me and onto the page.

I'm not busy writing, trying, struggling, working, or any other doing—I'm simply letting go and letting God, just as I do with my heart, my lungs, my circulatory system, and everything else that the physical me comprises. I let myself be."

To me this is the goal of life, to be everything we want to be, in flow, without feeling like we are doing.

Doing implies effort.

Allowing who we are and our gifts to flow through us, is being.

In the continuing lesson I am being taught, entitled 'loose sand', yesterday, piles of sand bigger than I could have imagined were taken off my lot.

Then they put what they call dirt on it and had a truck come to wet it.

It was 95 yesterday and it's still pretty wet this morning.

Luckily there was a spot nearby for me to move the motorhome and plug in, so the food in the freezer is still ok and I have A/C and Internet to write to you.

I thought it would be a few hours, not a few days.

All part of the lesson.

Inside of me a little voice is getting louder and louder, "Let go".

And as I was nearing heat exhaustion yesterday going back and forth in the blazing sun and humidity that made it feel like 105, the voice got louder. More like, "Please let it go!"

So this morning I will be as Wayne Dyer and go through my day without doing.

Supervising without interfering, I will let go.

I will not be busy trying, struggling, working, or any other doing.

I think it's a good reminder that we would never dream to tell our body, like we know better, how the systems of our body should function.

We just trust that if we let our body do it's thing, we will continue to breath and digest our food.

Why can't we don that with everything else?

I have a feeling we would find greta peace if we could.

I was going to say the my goal for today was to let it all go and watch from a distance.

But, setting that goal most likely qualifies as doing.

It will be a wonderful surprise if I'm back in my spot this afternoon with time to unload the cargo trailer and place all the patio furniture in the new living area.

That's what I'm visualizing as my preferred outcome, while I let it go.

What are you still trying to manage that doesn't actually require your management?

Today's Gentle Practice

Notice today if there is something you're carrying that doesn't actually belong to you.

A situation you're trying to control.

An outcome you're trying to force.

A problem you're trying to solve before it needs solving.

Then gently ask yourself:

"What would happen if I trusted this a little more?"

Not abandoned it.

Not ignored it.

Simply loosened your grip.

Sometimes peace arrives not when we figure everything out, but when we stop trying to manage what was never ours to manage in the first place.

With you,

Lynn