In God we trust

There is such a theme of trust with God. What is trust but letting go?  Letting go of concerns  and leaving them to God.

Of course, there is another recurrent theme in Heavenletters™, and that is the theme of taking responsibility for ourselves and not leaning on God to do it all for us.

Both of these themes live together. God doesn't want us to worry.  God is the Doer. At the same time as we let go of concerns and give our full trust to God, we don't sit idly by. For instance, if we want a job, God may well divinely send it to us. At the same time, we'd better take action and look for work.  Take action -- rely on God.

Lauren's job search in Chicago is an example of this. She was willing to take a temporary job, just about any temporary job. Lo and behold, a temp job turned out to be just the work she wanted -- she had no way of knowing this ahead of time --  and finally the job did become all hers. It took a while. Who but God could have put all the ingredients together for this to happen?

Of course, like most of us, Lauren did all the worrying and aggravating along the way as well.  If only she could have let go of the worry -- if couldn't we all.

Here are two recent examples from my personal Godwriting that talk about trust in God:

God said: Will you leave this to Me?

I said: Yes, God, I leave this to you.

That was so easy for me feel, and so easy to say when my attention was on God right there. I don't remember the relevant situation now, but I can imagine I did my usual stint of needless worrying just the same. But maybe I didn't so much. Maybe I did let go of whatever it was. Maybe I did.

Here, in another time of personal Godwriting, God went further:

I said: God, I do rely on You,  God, only I rely on so much else too.

God said: And what if you didn’t? What if you didn't rely on so much else? Peace would descend. Enjoy everyone in your life. Enjoy, and let go. Love, and let go.

If we didn't rely on all the other things we rely on, we would have peace. How simple when we look at it the way God says to.

Oh, this letting go. I would love to enjoy and not have to keep the joy. I would love to love and not have to hold on to it for dear life.

To live without attachment.  To be done with attachment once and for all -- that would be so wonderful. That would be being free.

So much progress made, and yet many miles to travel.