During times of meditation or journaling questions that I ask are often answered in the most profound ways. During my two months at Mt. Madonna Retreat Center I continued to struggle and question the path of letting go. Letting go of identifying with self, the story of me, and letting go of my attachment to people and places. One of my greatest challenges has been fully trusting that I am being taken care of as I face the unknown allowing Spirit to lead me to new places and new experiences. As I once again questioned how I was to truly let go and trust, the following came through:
Rest in deep surrender, without fear, in the Truth of your Beingness. Know you are fully and completely loved and supported. So that which is to manifest, move through you, live you, may do so with joy and ease.
Know and accept this Truth: all that you are and all you have ever been has always been supported, loved and cared for by creation. Even when everything is striped away you are cradled in the arms of this Love. So, do not fear for there are no mistakes, no loses, only movement, the play of form. For even if you lose your life you have only moved form one form to another. Though you wish to trust and surrender I know the challenge you face for I know your heart. Be truly free – live in Divine innocence and Love, meet me in the silent surrender where the wings of your soul lift you from confusion to clarity, from worry to faith and from your mind to your heart, the heart of Truth (God/Consciousness).
As I struggled with this process I realized the truth of that last line. I went from confusion to clarity, from worry to faith and from the spinning of my mind to my heart and the Truth of Spirit when I let go, surrendered to what was, and accepted without resistance. From this place of clarity I could then move forward with more ease and joy. I could move through the changes in my life more openly.
Though it continues to be a challenge at times to accept my ever changing life it helps to remind myself of the truths that have presented themselves: I am loved and supported and it is easier when I surrender and say "okay" to what is present. Then, whatever is to manifest can do so more easily.