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Today's
Meditation:
Gerald gives us another way of looking at the concept of
letting go-- allowing life to bring lessons to us rather
than trying to find and go through only those lessons that
we want to go through, or paying attention to only those
things that we feel are important at the time. The
truth is that life will give us all sorts of wonderful
lessons that will help us to grow in spirit, in mind, and
at heart if only we're willing to pay attention to what
life is saying to us.
Unfortunately, many people don't seem to want to grow
except in ways that they've chosen for themselves, and as
people with limited perspectives, we aren't really the
best ones to be choosing our own lessons. After all,
if we don't know something, how do we know that we're
supposed to learn it? How do we know that we could
use some growth in the area of compassion unless life
sends us a lesson that shows us what we need? How do
we know that we should take more time to rest if life
doesn't give us that lesson?
But of course, the lesson is only half the battle-- we have
to pay attention to the lesson, and we have to take
something from it if we're to say that we've truly
grown. And I believe it's about those lessons that
Gerald is speaking-- it's not for us to choose which
lessons we respond to by growing and developing, but in
paying attention to those lessons we become more loving,
more caring, more patient.
When we plant a seed in the ground, we don't make it
grow. We simply provide the conditions necessary for
the seed to germinate and develop into a plant of some
sort. Likewise with ourselves-- by staying aware and
accepting of life, we create conditions in which love and
compassion and wisdom can grow. Once those conditions
are good, we still can't force any of those things to
grow-- we can only accept the conditions and allow them to
grow inside us until they flower or bear fruit-- or both.
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