Letting Grace Be

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We wonderful human creatures have a deeply ingrained, yet veiled, sense of all-connecting love – it is just a matter of Letting Grace Be. This veiled sense spurs us along a path to more fulfilling life – to freedom. It gives us a glad and grateful disposition.

Some contemporary psychiatrists and psychologists, such as Gerald May and M. Scott Peck, have drawn on spiritual traditions and called this sense ‘grace’.

Without grace we can easily get stuck in the delusion of the false self that is a barren, isolated wasteland. The painful realities of life weigh us down and we cannot see beyond.

This constrained view is of the false self, or self-conscious ego. It keeps holding on to familiar paradigms and programming in order to cope. It deludes us into thinking that we’re happy just coping with the world and our perceived place in it.

But the deeper ingrained sense quietly beckons us toward a destiny that is more than merely coping… a destiny beyond the wasteland of isolated suffering entities. We are called by a dimly sensed love to leave the attachments of false self. To see beyond the current pain.

Letting go of our programming allows flexibility of sequences and patterns to emerge in our lives. Surprising synchronicities occur and the same life suddenly seems effortlessly orchestrated for our journey – a journey with all its ups and downs.

Letting go, and letting be, is not a moral judgment but an existential principle that is the only way to progress on the path of grace.

Myths and religious tales abound with the theme of evil and good struggling against each other. These stories depict the psychological landscape of attached fear versus spiritual freedom. It seems that our wisdom traditions are a narrative of human evolution to newness and to wider consciousness.

The world we see is branded on our physical senses as real and present. But we have it ingrained, at a deeper, quieter level, to yearn to break free from physical constraints, to let go, to soar in spirals of grace to the benevolent home from where we originated.

We have it in us to let grace be… and to be glad and grateful.

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