Re: “Letting Go and Letting God, For UU’s?”

Jim wrote a beautiful comment on yesterday’s post, and I want to share it with you here:

I don’t think it’s possible (or even necessarily desirable) to let go of the problems.

What we can let go of is the thought (or delusion) that we can solve all the problems in our lives — and that there’s something wrong with us if we can’t do it efficiently, gracefully and mostly on our own.

Increasingly, I’ve been getting the idea that spiritual growth isn’t about progress toward perfection, but rather it is about expanding to hold onto and embrace the various tensions, problems and contradictions that inevitably arise in our lives.

So, for me, “let go and let God” means not to let go of the problems but to let go of the attitudes and emotions that I have attached to the problems (thereby making room for them in my mind and heart).

And, yes, it’s easier said than done.